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4 unusual facts about Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company


Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

Before the Cartsdyke yard closed in the late 1970s it was used to film part of a BBC Television Play for Today called "Just a Boys' Game".

In 2011, Greenock's McLean Museum and Art Gallery celebrated the tercentenary of Scotts' foundation.

In 1900–1901 he specified and oversaw construction of Swire's Taikoo Dockyard in Hong Kong.

Submarine snorkel

An early submarine snorkel was designed by James Richardson, an Assistant Manager at Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland as early as 1916, during World War I.


HMS E51

HMS E51 was a British E class submarine built originally ordered from Yarrow, Scotstoun but transferred to Scotts, Greenock on 3 March 1915.


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