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'''Cammell Laird''' was a British shipbuilder, formed by the union of the shipbuilding interests of William Laird & Son with the Sheffield steelmakers Charles Cammell Co. in 1903 . | '''Cammell Laird''' was a British shipbuilder, formed by the union of the shipbuilding interests of William Laird & Son with the Sheffield steelmakers Charles Cammell Co. in 1903 . | ||
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Revision as of 10:19, 19 September 2012
Cammell Laird was a British shipbuilder, formed by the union of the shipbuilding interests of William Laird & Son with the Sheffield steelmakers Charles Cammell Co. in 1903 .
Laird's began with warship construction in the 1840s and was a leader in large vessels by 1885. Their primary yard was at Birkenhead.[1]
Shipbuilding
Footnotes
- ↑ Burt. British Battleships of World War One. p. 9.
Bibliography
- Burt, R A (2012). British Battleships of World War One. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781591140535. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
