Yarrow and Co. Limited

occupation:
Shipbuilder
Nationality:
British

1897 - Yarrow and Co incorporated as a limited company. 1898 - moved out of Folly Wall, Poplar shipyard to the nearby London Yard. 1906 - moved to Scotstoun on the Clyde over a period of two years. 1918 - began courting merchant orders and built yachts, cargo ships and coasters. 1921 - due to lack of orders, the yard closed. 1922 - Alfred Yarrow's son, Harold Edgar Yarrow, moved the yard towards producing land boilers. 1977 - along with other shipbuilders, nationalised under the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977, to form British Shipbuilders.