Cammell Laird

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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 .

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

  1. Burt. British Battleships of World War One. p. 9.

Bibliography

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