RAILSCOT | Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard

Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard

Location type

Works

Name and dates

Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard

Served by the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway.

Nearby stations Cartsdyke Whinhill Greenock Central Greenock Cathcart Street [1st] Greenock (Lynedoch) Upper Greenock Bogston Greenock West Greenock Princes Pier [2nd] Greenock Princes Pier [1st] Drumfrochar Port Glasgow Fort Matilda Branchton Ravenscraig	Clyde Foundry and Engine Works Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard Garvel Dry Dock Goods Cartsdyke Junction Garvel Dry Dock Cartsdyke Sawmill Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard Cartsdyke Slip Ashfield Saw Mills Cartsdyke West Yard Garvel Shipyard Cartsdyke Goods Cartside Timber Yard Carwood Street Works James Watt Dock
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1883	John Scott & Sons Buys the Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard of Steel.
/ /1934	Scotts Shipbuilding & Eng Co Ltd Scotts swap their Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (Cartsdyke East) for Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (owned by the Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd). This allowed Scotts to create a shipyard which combined, from west to east, Cartsdyke Graving Dock, Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard and Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard. (The mid yard had been located between two Scotts owned sites.)
/ /1966	Scotts Shipbuilding & Eng Co Ltd The Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd is absorbed, along with its Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard. All of the Cartsdyke and Cartsburn yards were now under Scotts. For vessels partly completed in the Cartsdyke yard the company Cartsdyke Dockyard Co Ltd is briefly registered. Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (Cartsdyke East) becomes a steel fabrication site.
/ /1980	Scott-Lithgow Ltd MV Myrmidon launched from the Cartsburn/Cartsdyke yards, (Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard, Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard & Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (Cartsdyke East)), the last cargo ship launched here.
/ /1981	Scott-Lithgow Ltd HMS Challenger launched from the Cartsburn/Cartsdyke yards, (Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard, Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard & Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (Cartsdyke East)), the last Royal Navy ship (and ship altogether) launched here.
/ /1983	Scott-Lithgow Ltd Sea Explorer, a self propelled semi-submersible drilling rig, is launched from the Cartsburn/Cartsdyke yards, (Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard, Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard & Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (Cartsdyke East)), the last launch ever here.
/ /1988	Scott-Lithgow Ltd Cartsburn Shipbuilding Yard, Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard & Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard (Cartsdyke East) demolished.

Books

Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History)