Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard
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Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding YardChronology Dates
| / /1900 | Grangemouth Dockyard Buys Russells Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard yard. Grangemouth & Greenock Dockyard Co created. |
| / /1908 | Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Recognising the importance of the Mid Cartsdyke Shipbuilding Yard the company name Grangemouth & Greenock Dockyard Co is changed to mention Greenock first. |
| / /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.) |
| / /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. |
