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Part of Caird & Co's yard in 1913, with SS Berrima under construction

Caird & Company was a Scottish shipbuilding and engineering firm based in Greenock. The company was established in 1828 by John Caird when he received an order to re-engine Clyde paddle-tugs.[1]

John's relative James Tennant Caird joined the company in 1831, and after leaving to work for Randolph, Elder & Co in Glasgow, rejoined the family business for good in 1838.

A year after the death of Robert Caird, the company was sold to Harland & Wolff Ltd in 1916 for £432,493. The firm continued trading as a separate enterprise, with Arthur and Patrick Caird on the board, until 1922. The Arthur Street engine works was sold to John G. Kincaid & Company in 1919.

Ships fitted with engines by Caird & Co

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Drawing of Caird Engine fitted to 1841 steam packets
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Drawing of Caird Engine fitted to 1841 steam packets

In the early years Caird & Co were responsible for fitting (or re-fitting) steam engines in ships. An example of this is the Glasgow fitted with a side-lever engine by Caird & Co in 1828 for G & J Burns.[2] This being an engine running on only 5psi steam pressure, as was common at the time (the steam condenser created a vacuum so the effective pressure acting on the piston was the difference between the boiler pressure and the condenser vacuum). Also in 1828 Caird & Co re-engined the paddle steamer Industry (built in 1814 by William Fyfe of Fairlie), replacing the original single cylinder engine rated at 10 hp with a Caird single cylinder engine rated at 14 hp.

In 1845 details and drawings of Caird engines fitted in four West India Mail-Packets were published,[3] these being the "Clyde", "Tay", "Tweed" and "Teviot". These were also side-lever engines, with two cylinders of diameter of 74.5in and stroke of 90in, driving 30 ft paddle-wheels, running at 15rpm. These mail packets were operated by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. Collated records of ships built on the Clyde[4] suggest that Caird contracted out the building of the wooden hulls for these mail packets.

  • The Clyde was built by Robert Duncan of Greenock and launched in Feb 1841, registered Dec 1841.
  • The Tay was built by Charles Wood of Dumbarton, launched in July 1841, registered Dec 1841.
  • The Tweed was built by Thomson & Speirs of Greenock, launched in Apr 1841, registered in Dec 1841.
  • The Teviot was built by Robert Duncan of Greenock, launched in Oct 1841, registered in Feb 1842.

Other ships fitted with engines by Caird include :

  • The steam tugs Hercules and Gulliver built by Robert Steele & Co of Greenock in 1820s
  • The paddle-steamer Liverpool built by Robert Steele & Co of Greenock 1830
  • The steam tug Samson built by William Denny of Dumbarton in 1819. Caird engine fitted 1831
  • The paddle-steamer Gazelle built by Murries & Clark of Greenock 1832
  • The paddle-steamer Dolphin built by James Lang of Dumbarton 1834
  • The paddle-steamer Eagle built by Robert Steele & Co of Greenock 1835
  • The paddle-steamer Unicorn built by Robert Steele & Co of Greenock 1836
  • The paddle-steamer Juno built by Robert Duncan of Greenock 1837
  • The paddle-steamer Achilles built by Robert Steels & Co, launched May 1839
  • The tug Conqueror built by Robert Duncan of Greenock 1840
  • The paddle-steamer Flambeau built by Robert Duncan of Greenock 1840

Following this Caird fitted engines to a significant number of screw-steamers built by other companies (i.e. propeller driven) particularly those built by Denny of Dumbarton up until 1851, and other ship builders until 1863.[4]

Ships built by Caird & Co

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Painting of SS Atrato by William Frederick Mitchell
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SS Austria, launched on 23 June 1857
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SS Bokhara in the 1880s
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The barque Inchgreen
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Picture postcard of RMS Arabia
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Picture postcard of SS Persia at Aden in about 1910
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RMS Moldavia

Notable members of the Caird family

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  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ "The Clyde – From its Source to the Sea", W.J. Millar, Blackie, 1888, p212
  3. ↑ "Engines of the West India Mail-Packets Clyde, Tay, Tweed, and Teviot", The Practical Mechanic and Engineer's Magazine, June 1845, p242 and plates XXI and XXIA
  4. ↑ 4,0 4,1 "Clyde Built Ships"
  5. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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