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'''John Brown & Company''' was a Scottish shipbuilding concern during the Dreadnought Era.  Originally founded as an engineering firm, it acquired the '''J. & G.  Thomson''' shipbuilding firm, which had been winning contracts to build destroyers for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1899.  Operation then continued under the Brown name.
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'''John Brown & Company''' was a Scottish shipbuilding concern during the Dreadnought Era.  Originally founded as an engineering firm, it acquired the [[J. & G.  Thomson]] shipbuilding firm, which had been winning contracts to build destroyers for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1899.  Operation then continued under the Brown name.
  
 
==See Also==
 
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Revision as of 12:22, 7 April 2018

John Brown & Company was a Scottish shipbuilding concern during the Dreadnought Era. Originally founded as an engineering firm, it acquired the J. & G. Thomson shipbuilding firm, which had been winning contracts to build destroyers for the Royal Navy in 1899. Operation then continued under the Brown name.

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Bibliography

  • Burt, R. A. (1986). British Battleships of World War One. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).