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Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Limited
Company typePrivate
IndustryShipbuilding
Founded1968; 56 years ago (1968)
Defunct1972; 52 years ago (1972)
FateLiquidated
SuccessorGovan Shipbuilders
Scotstoun Marine Ltd
Yarrow Shipbuilders
Marathon (Clydebank)
HeadquartersFitzpatrick House, Cadogan Street, Glasgow, Scotland

Alexander Stephen House, Linthouse, Glasgow (from 1969)
Key people
  • Sir Anthony Hepper (Chairman)
  • Kenneth Douglas C.B.E.(Managing Director)
  • Sir Robert Smith (Liquidator)
Number of employees
13,000
SubsidiariesClydebank Division
Govan Division
Linthouse Division
Scotstoun Division
Simons and Lobnitz
Yarrow Shipbuilders (Until April 1970)

Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) was a Scottish shipbuilding consortium, created in 1968 as a result of the amalgamation of five major shipbuilders of the River Clyde. It entered liquidation, with much controversy, in 1971. That led to a "work-in" campaign at the company's shipyards, involving shop stewards Jimmy Airlie and Jimmy Reid, among others.

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