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Scott of Kinghorn

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Former type
  
Private

Defunct
  
1909

Ceased operations
  
1909

Industry
  
Shipbuilding

Headquarters
  
Kinghorn

Scott of Kinghorn was a shipbuilding company at Kinghorn near Burntisland, Fife, Scotland.

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Background

The company was founded as J Scott and Company and was trading by the 1870s. Its products included paddle ferries for the Firth of Forth. By the 1900s Scott owned an engine works that built triple-expansion engines for large steamships. The company suffered a trade slump in the Edwardian era and ceased production in 1909.

Ships built

  • Birkenhead (1894)
  • Scottish Maid (1899)
  • Lady Evelyn (1900)
  • Ebenezer (1903)
  • Duranbah (1905)
  • TSS Kempsey (1907)
  • Orara (1907)
  • Eumeralla (1908)
  • References

    Scott of Kinghorn Wikipedia