John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm that built some of the most famous ships of the twentieth century, among them RMS Lusitania, RMS Aquitania, HMS Hood, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2. From about 1900 to the 1950s it ranked among the most highly regarded shipbuilders in the world. Unable to keep pace with yards in Eastern Europe and the Far East, it merged with other Clydeside yards in 1968 to form the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders consortium, which collapsed in 1971. The company then left shipbuilding, but its engineering arm went on making industrial gas turbines and became a subsidiary of Trafalgar House in 1986.
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Source Kungsholm (1965 ship) (Wikipedia)Lead, builderQuote, Lead, builder
MV Kungsholm was built in 1964/5 by the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland
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The most notable vessels built in this period were the RMS Caronia
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RMS Empress of Britain was a steam turbine ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Scotland
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Source RMS Windsor Castle (1921) (Wikipedia)History, Construction and design, subcontractQuote, History, Construction and design, subcontract
The continuation of the war until late 1918 led Harland & Wolff to subcontract her building to John Brown & Company.
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1986
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1851
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Shipbuilding
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