Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, often referred to simply as Scotts, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Greenock on the River Clyde. In its time in Greenock, Scotts built
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Robert Steele & Company was a shipbuilding firm based in Greenock, Scotland. The business was formed in 1815 by Robert Steele and two sons. It followed the dissolution of an earlier shipbuilding partn
Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
…C. G. Scott started building at Cartsdyke Dockyard in 1850, as Scott & Company. John Scott (II) and Robert Scott bought the adjacent yard of Robert Steele & Company in 1883, to create the Cartsburn Dockyard, which was laid out for naval shipbuilding. By 1900, John Swire & Company were major shareholders and Henry…
Robert Steele (1745-1830), an 1826 portrait by John B. Fleming (1792-1845), McLean Museum and Art Gallery.
View of Greenock, 1816, by Robert Salmon, (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)
Robert Steele II (1791-1879) portrait by Norman MacBeth, 1877 (Inverclyde Libraries, Museum and Inverclyde Archives)
Clipper ship Hesperus (1874).