Description

Alexander Stephen, a member of the third generation of the family, merged the Arbroath and Aberdeen businesses in 1828, and then, after closing the Aberdeen yard in 1829, moved production to the Panmure yard in Dundee 1842. In 1850 Alexander Stephen arranged a lease of the Kelvinhaugh yard in Glasgow from Robert Black for twenty years from May, 1851. The Arbroath yard finally closed in 1857. Due to the restrictions in size of the Kelvinhaugh yard, as well as the impending expiry of the lease, in 1870 the Glasgow business moved to a new site at Linthouse. The Dundee shipyard was sold to the Dundee Shipbuilders’ Company in 1893.
In 1968, Stephens was incorporated into Upper Clyde Shipbuilders] and was closed after the latter organisation collapsed in 1971. The engineering and ship repair elements of Alexander Stephen & Sons were not part of the UCS merger and continued until 1976, with the Company eventually wound up in 1982, when the shareholders were repaid.
There is no knowledge of the earlest ships built, but the last 153 which were built on the East Coast are recorded. On the Clyde the firm built 697 ships, 147 at the Kelvinhaugh shipyard and the remainder at Linthouse.
All recorded ships are listed in this book.

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