Scott Lithgow

Scott Lithgow
Company type	Private
Industry	Shipbuilding
Founded	1967
Defunct	1993
Fate	Merged into British Shipbuilders (1977); Acquired by Trafalgar House (1984)
Headquarters	Port Glasgow and Greenock, Scotland
Parent	British Shipbuilders (1977-1983); Trafalgar House (1983-1993)
Subsidiaries	Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company; Lithgows; Greenock Dockyard Company; Ferguson Shipbuilders

Scott Lithgow, Limited was a Scottish shipbuilding company.

History

The company was formed in 1967 by the merger of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and Lithgows.^[1] Scott Lithgow was based in Port Glasgow and Greenock on the lower Clyde in Scotland. Scott Lithgow was nationalised and subsumed into British Shipbuilders in 1977.^[1] Reorganisation of Scott Lithgow in 1981 saw all the assets of its subsidiary companies transferred under the direct operational control of Scott Lithgow.^[1]

From 1980, the company became the centre of British Shipbuilders’ Offshore Division and it was hoped that the offshore semi-submersible market would lead the yard back to profitability. However the Ocean Alliance semi-submersible construction was a disastrous contract for the company, with the rig eventually delivered four years late and at a loss of over £200 million.^[2]

In 1984 Trafalgar House bought the company and the Company ceased to trade in 1993.^[1]

Iolair being fitted out in 1982
Ocean Alliance under construction in 1986

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d University of Glasgow Archives
^ Scott Lithgow: Déjà vu all over again! The Rise and Fall of a Shipbuilding Company, Lewis Johnman and Hugh Murphy, Research in Maritime History series: No. 30, October 2006.

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[history-1] University of Glasgow Archives

[2] Scott Lithgow: Déjà vu all over again! The Rise and Fall of a Shipbuilding Company, Lewis Johnman and Hugh Murphy, Research in Maritime History series: No. 30, October 2006.

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