The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company was a Scottish shipbuilder in the Govan area on the Clyde in Glasgow, usually called Fairfields. It was a major warship builder, turning out many vessels for the Royal Navy and other navies through both World Wars. It also built many transatlantic liners, including record-breaking ships for the Cunard Line and Canadian Pacific such as the Blue Riband-winning sisters RMS Campania and RMS Lucania. At the other end of the scale it produced fast cross-channel mail steamers and ferries for locations around the world, among them ships for the Bosporus crossing in Istanbul and early tourist steamers for Thomas Cook on the Nile.
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Source Battle-class destroyer (Wikipedia)Orders and construction, builderQuote, Orders and construction, builder
Camperdown and Finisterre (with Fairfield, Govan)
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Source Naval Encyclopedia: Cressy class armoured cruisers (Naval Encyclopedia)Builders of the class, manufacturerQuote, Builders of the class, manufacturer
HMS Cressy was laid down by Fairfield Shipbuilding, Govan, Scotland on 12 October 1898
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Constructed by The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.
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8.10.04 Fairfield. 2,850 tons, 379(oa),
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Source Naval Encyclopedia: Implacable class aircraft carriers (Naval Encyclopedia)Builders of the class, manufacturerQuote, Builders of the class, manufacturer
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Govan, Scotland for HMS Implacable
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Source Naval Encyclopedia: Indefatigable class battlecruisers (Naval Encyclopedia)New Zealand, builderQuote, New Zealand, builder
New Zealand was ordered from Fairfield, Govan
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Source Naval Encyclopedia: Invincible class battlecruisers (Naval Encyclopedia)Builders of the class, manufacturerQuote, Builders of the class, manufacturer
The Three Invincible were laid down respectively in Fairfield, Clydebank and Elswick
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Commonwealth was built at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, and was laid down in June 1902, launched in May 1903, and completed in March 1905.
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Source Naval Encyclopedia: King George V class battleships (Naval Encyclopedia)Construction, HMS Howe builderQuote, Construction, HMS Howe builder
As for HMS Howe (ex-Beatty) she was laid down at Fairfield, Govan on 1.6.1937
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Valiant Fairfield Shipbuilding Ltd. Govan, Scotland Nov. 4, 1914
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Renown Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Ltd. Govan, Scotland Mar. 4, 1916
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Source Naval Encyclopedia: Tribal class destroyer (Naval Encyclopedia)Builders of the class, manufacturerQuote, Builders of the class, manufacturer
Gurkha (F20) was laid down at Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company in Govan on 6 July 1936
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Merged with others to form Upper Clyde Shipbuilders
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Public company
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1968
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1834
Operates In: Shipbuilding Industry, Infobox: industry
Shipbuilding
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