William Beardmore & Company

William Beardmore & Company was a private British shipbuilding firm with a yard at Dalmuir.

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

Ship	Type	Launched	Fate
H.M.S. Berwick	armoured cruiser	1902	Sold 1920
H.M.S. Carnarvon	armoured cruiser	7 Oct, 1903	Sold 8 Nov, 1921
H.M.S. Agamemnon	pre-dreadnought	23 Jun, 1906	Sold 24 Jan, 1927
H.M.S. Gloucester	light cruiser	28 Oct, 1909	Sold 9 May, 1921
H.M.S. Falmouth	light cruiser	20 Sep, 1910	Sold 19 Aug, 1916
H.M.S. Conqueror	dreadnought	1 May, 1911	Sold 19 Dec, 1922
H.M.S. Goshawk	destroyer	18 Oct, 1911	4 Nov, 1921
H.M.S. Dublin	light cruiser	30 Apr, 1912	Sold Jul, 1926
H.M.S. Alsatian	armed merchant cruiser	22 Mar, 1913	Sold 1919
H.M.S. Llewellyn	destroyer	30 Oct, 1913	Mar, 1922
H.M.S. Benbow	dreadnought	12 Nov, 1913	Sold Mar, 1931
H.M.S. Lennox	destroyer	17 Mar, 1914	Oct, 1921
H.M.S. Galatea	light cruiser	14 May, 1914	Sold 25 Oct, 1921
H.M.S. Inconstant	light cruiser	6 Jul, 1914	Sold 9 Jun, 1922
H.M.S. Royalist	light cruiser	14 Jan, 1915	Sold 24 Aug, 1922
H.M.S. E 25	submarine	23 Aug, 1915	Sold Dec, 1921
H.M.S. Lassoo	destroyer	24 Aug, 1915	Mined 13 Aug, 1916
H.M.S. Lochinvar	destroyer	9 Oct, 1915	Nov, 1921
H.M.S. E 26	submarine	11 Nov, 1915	Lost 6 Jul, 1916
H.M.S. Pelican	destroyer	18 Mar, 1916
H.M.S. Pellew	destroyer	8 May, 1916
H.M.S. E 53	submarine	1916	Sold Sep, 1922
H.M.S. E 54	submarine	1916	Sold Dec, 1921
H.M.S. Ramillies	dreadnought	12 Sep, 1916	Sold 20 Feb, 1948
H.M.S. Satyr	destroyer	27 Dec, 1916	16 Dec, 1926
H.M.S. Sharpshooter	destroyer	27 Feb, 1917	29 Apr, 1927
H.M.S. Tancred	destroyer	30 Jun, 1917	17 May, 1928
H.M.S. Ulster	destroyer	10 Oct, 1917	Apr, 1928
H.M.S. K 16	submarine	5 Nov, 1917	Sold Aug, 1924
H.M.S. Argus	aircraft carrier	2 Dec, 1917	Sold 5 Dec, 1946
H.M.S. Vancouver	destroyer	28 Dec, 1917	4 Mar, 1947
H.M.S. L 6	submarine	14 Jan, 1918	Sold 1935
H.M.S. Vanessa	destroyer	16 Mar, 1918
H.M.S. Vanity	destroyer	3 May, 1918
H.M.S. Tactician	destroyer	7 Aug, 1918
H.M.S. Tara	destroyer	12 Oct, 1918
H.M.S. H 47	submarine	19 Nov, 1918	Collision 9 Jul, 1929
H.M.S. Tasmania	destroyer	22 Nov, 1918
H.M.S. L 69	submarine	6 Dec, 1918	Sold Feb, 1939
H.M.S. Tattoo	destroyer	28 Dec, 1918
H.M.S. H 48	submarine	31 Mar, 1919	Sold Aug, 1935
H.M.S. Vansittart	destroyer	17 Apr, 1919	25 Feb, 1946
H.M.S. H 49	submarine	15 Jul, 1919	Sunk 27 Oct, 1940
H.M.S. Raleigh	cruiser	28 Aug, 1919	Wrecked 8 Aug, 1922
H.M.S. H 50	submarine	25 Oct, 1919	Sold 1945
H.M.S. Shropshire	heavy cruiser	5 Jul, 1928	Broken up 1955
H.M.S. Olympus	submarine	11 Dec, 1928	Mined 8 May, 1942
H.M.S. Orpheus	submarine	26 Feb, 1929	Sunk 19 Jun, 1940

See Also

• Wikipedia

Bibliography

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