Lithgows

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Lithgows, Limited, was a British shipbuilding company based in Kingston, Port Glasgow, on the River Clyde in Scotland.

Lithgows was incorporated in 1918 from Russell and Company, which had been acquired by William Lithgow in 1891 when his partnership with Anderson Rodger and Joseph Russell ended in 1891. William Lithgow's sons James and Henry joined the family business in 1907. The company grew throughout the early 20th century, acquiring many lower-Clyde heavy industrial businesses, including Dunlop, Bremner and Company in 1919, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in 1935 and Ferguson Brothers in 1961. For a period in the 1950s, it was the world's largest shipbuilding concern.

In 1967, Lithgows merged with Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Greenock to form a lower-Clyde rival to the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. The new group became Scott Lithgow, Ltd, which was nationalised into British Shipbuilders in 1977.