John Brown & Company was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm centred on its Clydebank yard on the River Clyde. The business grew out of a Sheffield steel and armour-plate firm, took over the Clydebank shipyard of J & G Thomson in 1899 and went on to build some of the most celebrated ships of the twentieth century, among them the Cunard liners Lusitania, Aquitania, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Royal Navy battlecruisers Hood and Repulse. Its Brown-Curtis marine turbines won it major Admiralty orders. The shipyard was merged into Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in 1968 and its last ship was completed in 1972, while the engineering arm survived as a gas turbine maker until the Clydebank works closed in 2000.
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In 1968 John Brown's merged with other Clydeside shipyards to form the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders consortium, but that collapsed in 1971.
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John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm.
Part Of: Maritime Transport, Lead, firm type
John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm.
In Group: Shipbuilders, Lead, shipbuilding firm
John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm.
Has Vehicles: RMS Caronia (1947), Lead, builder
The most notable vessels built in this period were the RMS Caronia
Has Vehicles: RMS Queen Mary, Lead, ships built
It built many notable and world-famous ships including RMS Lusitania, RMS Aquitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2.
Has Vehicles: RMS Lusitania, Lead, ships built
It built many notable and world-famous ships including RMS Lusitania, RMS Aquitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2.
Has Vehicles: RMS Queen Elizabeth, Lead, ships built
It built many notable and world-famous ships including RMS Lusitania, RMS Aquitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2.
Has Vehicles: RMS Aquitania, Lead, ships built
It built many notable and world-famous ships including RMS Lusitania, RMS Aquitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2.
Has Vehicles: RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, Lead, ships built
It built many notable and world-famous ships including RMS Lusitania, RMS Aquitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2.
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Has Vehicles: RMS Empress of Britain (1930), Lead, builderQuote, Has Vehicles: RMS Empress of Britain (1930), Lead, builder
RMS Empress of Britain was a steam turbine ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Scotland
Kungsholm (1965 ship) (Wikipedia)
Has Vehicles: MS Kungsholm (1965), Lead, builderQuote, Has Vehicles: MS Kungsholm (1965), Lead, builder
MV Kungsholm was built in 1964/5 by the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland
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