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Old Photograph Lithgows Port Glasgow Scotland
Old photograph of Lithgows in Port Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. This Scottish family owned Scottish company that had a long involvement in shipbuilding, based in Kingston, Port Glasgow on the River Clyde. The Company was established by Joseph Russell and his partners Anderson Rodger and William Lithgow who leased the Bay Yard in Port Glasgow from Cunliffe & Dunlop and started trading as Russell & Company in 1874. In 1879 they purchased the Cartsdyke Mid Yard from J.E. Scott and in 1881 they acquired the Kingston Shipyard from Henry Murray. The partnership was dissolved in 1891: Russell retired, Rodger took the Bay Yard and Lithgow the Kingston and Cartsdyke Yards. In 1900 The Cartsdyke Yard was sold to Greenock Dockyard. Then in 1908 brothers William Lithgow's sons, James and Henry, assumed control; they bought the Bay yard in 1911. The Company then entered a period of expansion by acquisition, buying the Port Glasgow East Yard from Robert Duncan & Company in 1915 and Glasgow marine enginebuilders David Rowan & Company in 1917. In 1918 Russell & Company was renamed Lithgows Limited.
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