Yarrow Shipbuilders

Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited, often called simply Yarrows, was a major shipbuilding firm based at Scotstoun in Glasgow on the River Clyde. Alfred Yarrow founded it in 1865 as Yarrow and Company at Folly Wall in Poplar, London, where it built hundreds of steam launches and lake and river vessels and the Royal Navy first destroyers, the Havock class, and where it patented the Yarrow water-tube boiler. It moved to a greenfield site at Scotstoun from 1906, and the first vessel launched there in July 1908 was a destroyer for the Brazilian Navy. The firm became known for fast warships, the first naval vessels to exceed 30 and then 40 knots, and it is now part of BAE Systems Surface Ships, owned by BAE Systems.