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'''William Beardmore & Company''' was a private British shipbuilding firm with a yard at Dalmuir.{{Burt1986|p. 9}}

==History==
The firm started constructing warships, armour and miscellaneous components around the turn of the century.

In 1913, it started building aircraft engines and [[Sopwith Pup]] fighter planes under licence.

==Shipbuilding==
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{|border=1
|'''Ship'''||'''Type'''||'''Launched'''||'''Fate'''
|-
|{{UK-1Berwick|f=p}}||armoured cruiser||1902||Sold 1920
|-
|{{UK-Carnarvon|f=p}}||armoured cruiser||7 Oct, 1903||Sold 8 Nov, 1921
|-
|{{UK-Agamemnon|f=p}}||pre-dreadnought||23 Jun, 1906||Sold 24 Jan, 1927
|-
|{{UK-1Gloucester|f=p}}||light cruiser||28 Oct, 1909||Sold 9 May, 1921
|-
|{{UK-1Falmouth|f=p}}||light cruiser||20 Sep, 1910||Sold 19 Aug, 1916
|-
|{{UK-Conqueror|f=p}}||dreadnought||1 May, 1911||Sold 19 Dec, 1922
|-
|{{UK-Goshawk|f=p}}||destroyer||18 Oct, 1911|| 4 Nov, 1921
|-
|{{UK-Dublin|f=p}}||light cruiser||30 Apr, 1912||Sold Jul, 1926
|-
|{{UK-Alsatian|f=p}}||armed merchant cruiser||22 Mar, 1913||Sold 1919
|-
|{{UK-Llewellyn|f=p}}||destroyer||30 Oct, 1913|| Mar, 1922
|-
|{{UK-Benbow|f=p}}||dreadnought||12 Nov, 1913||Sold Mar, 1931
|-
|{{UK-Lennox|f=p}}||destroyer||17 Mar, 1914|| Oct, 1921
|-
|{{UK-1Galatea|f=p}}||light cruiser||14 May, 1914||Sold 25 Oct, 1921
|-
|{{UK-1Inconstant|f=p}}||light cruiser||6 Jul, 1914||Sold 9 Jun, 1922
|-
|{{UK-Royalist|f=p}}||light cruiser||14 Jan, 1915||Sold 24 Aug, 1922
|-
|{{UK-E25|f=p}}||submarine||23 Aug, 1915||Sold Dec, 1921
|-
|{{UK-Lassoo|f=p}}||destroyer||24 Aug, 1915||Mined 13 Aug, 1916
|-
|{{UK-Lochinvar|f=p}}||destroyer||9 Oct, 1915|| Nov, 1921
|-
|{{UK-E26|f=p}}||submarine||11 Nov, 1915||Lost 6 Jul, 1916
|-
|{{UK-Pelican|f=p}}||destroyer||18 Mar, 1916|| 
|-
|{{UK-Pellew|f=p}}||destroyer||8 May, 1916|| 
|-
|{{UK-E53|f=p}}||submarine||1916||Sold Sep, 1922
|-
|{{UK-E54|f=p}}||submarine||1916||Sold Dec, 1921
|-
|{{UK-Ramillies|f=p}}||dreadnought||12 Sep, 1916||Sold 20 Feb, 1948
|-
|{{UK-1Satyr|f=p}}||destroyer||27 Dec, 1916|| 16 Dec, 1926
|-
|{{UK-Sharpshooter|f=p}}||destroyer||27 Feb, 1917|| 29 Apr, 1927
|-
|{{UK-Tancred|f=p}}||destroyer||30 Jun, 1917|| 17 May, 1928
|-
|{{UK-Ulster|f=p}}||destroyer||10 Oct, 1917|| Apr, 1928
|-
|{{UK-K16|f=p}}||submarine||5 Nov, 1917||Sold Aug, 1924
|-
|{{UK-Argus|f=p}}||aircraft carrier||2 Dec, 1917||Sold 5 Dec, 1946
|-
|{{UK-Vancouver|f=p}}||destroyer||28 Dec, 1917|| 4 Mar, 1947
|-
|{{UK-L6|f=p}}||submarine||14 Jan, 1918||Sold 1935
|-
|{{UK-Vanessa|f=p}}||destroyer||16 Mar, 1918|| 
|-
|{{UK-Vanity|f=p}}||destroyer||3 May, 1918|| 
|-
|{{UK-Tactician|f=p}}||destroyer||7 Aug, 1918|| 
|-
|{{UK-Tara|f=p}}||destroyer||12 Oct, 1918|| 
|-
|{{UK-H47|f=p}}||submarine||19 Nov, 1918||Collision 9 Jul, 1929
|-
|{{UK-Tasmania|f=p}}||destroyer||22 Nov, 1918|| 
|-
|{{UK-L69|f=p}}||submarine||6 Dec, 1918||Sold Feb, 1939
|-
|{{UK-Tattoo|f=p}}||destroyer||28 Dec, 1918|| 
|-
|{{UK-H48|f=p}}||submarine||31 Mar, 1919||Sold Aug, 1935
|-
|{{UK-Vansittart|f=p}}||destroyer||17 Apr, 1919|| 25 Feb, 1946
|-
|{{UK-H49|f=p}}||submarine||15 Jul, 1919||Sunk 27 Oct, 1940
|-
|{{UK-Raleigh|f=p}}||cruiser||28 Aug, 1919||Wrecked 8 Aug, 1922
|-
|{{UK-H50|f=p}}||submarine||25 Oct, 1919||Sold 1945
|-
|{{UK-Shropshire|f=p}}||heavy cruiser||5 Jul, 1928||Broken up 1955
|-
|{{UK-Olympus|f=p}}||submarine||11 Dec, 1928||Mined 8 May, 1942
|-
|{{UK-Orpheus|f=p}}||submarine||26 Feb, 1929||Sunk 19 Jun, 1940
|}
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==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}

==See Also==
{{refbegin}}
{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beardmore_and_Company}}
{{refend}}

==Bibliography==
{{refbegin}}
*{{Burt1986}}
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