Caird & Company

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Part of Caird & Co's yard in 1913, with SS Berrima under construction

Caird & Company was a Scottish shipbuilding and engineering firm based in Greenock. The company was established in 1828 by John Caird when he received an order to re-engine Clyde paddle-tugs.^[1]

John's relative James Tennant Caird joined the company in 1831, and after leaving to work for Randolph, Elder & Co in Glasgow, rejoined the family business for good in 1838.

A year after the death of Robert Caird, the company was sold to Harland & Wolff Ltd in 1916 for £432,493. The firm continued trading as a separate enterprise, with Arthur and Patrick Caird on the board, until 1922. The Arthur Street engine works was sold to John G Kincaid & Co Ltd in 1919.

Ships built by Caird & Co

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Painting of SS Atrato by William Frederick Mitchell

SS Austria, launched on 23 June 1857

SS Bokhara in the 1880s

The barque Inchgreen

Picture postcard of RMS Arabia

Picture postcard of SS Persia at Aden in about 1910

RMS Moldavia

PS Sea Nymph (1845)
PS Tynwald (1846)
SS Atrato (1853)
SS Teutonia (1856)
SS Austria (1857)
SS Saxonia (1857)
SS Hansa (1861)
PS Alfred (1863)
SS Germania (1863)
PS Snaefell (1863)
PS Douglas (1864)
SS Hermann (1864)
PS Stanley (1864)
SS Princess Alice (1865)
SS Deutschland (1866)
PS Tynwald (1866)
SS Baltimore (1867)
SS Berlin (1867)
SS Cimbria (1867)
SS Weser (1867)
SS Donau (1868)
SS Westphalia (1868)
SS Leipzig (1869)
SS Ohio (1869)
SS Silesia (1869)
SS Germania (1870)
SS Bokhara (1872)
SS Frisia (1872)
SS Strassburg (1872)
RMS City of Chester (1873)
SS Oder (1873)
SS Saint Simon (ex-Rhenania) (1873)
SS City of Berlin (1874)
SS Governor General Loudon (1875)
SV Inchgreen (1876)
PS Snaefell (1876)
SS Coromandel (1885)
SS India (1896)
RMS Arabia (1897)
SS Persia (1900)
RMS Moldavia (1903)
SS Delhi (1905)
SS Devanha (1905)
RMS Medina (1911)
HMAS Berrima (1914)
HMS P.22 (1916)
HMS P.35 (1917)
HMS P.42 (1917)
HMS P.43 (1917)
SS Burgondier (1918)

Notable members of the Caird family

Edward Caird, philosopher
John Caird, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow
Robert Caird, head of the company

References

↑ Middlemiss, Frank. "Cairds". Inverclyde Shipbuilding & Engineering. Greenock: McLean Museum & Art Gallery. Retrieved 23 September 2010.

External links

"Caird and Co". Graces Guide.

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