Scott of Kinghorn explained

J Scott & Co
Type:	Private
Defunct:	1909
Location:	Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland
Industry:	Shipbuilding

Scott of Kinghorn was a shipbuilding company at Kinghorn near Burntisland, Fife, Scotland.

Background

The company was founded as J Scott and Company and was trading by the 1870s. Its products included paddle ferries for the Firth of Forth. By the 1900s Scott owned an engine works that built triple-expansion engines for large steamships. The company suffered a trade slump in the Edwardian era and ceased production in 1909.^[1]

Ships built

PS Tantallon Castle (1889) PS Laverock (1889)

• Birkenhead (1894)
• Scottish Maid (1899)

-. "PS Stirling Castle" (1899)

• Lady Evelyn (1900)
• Ebenezer (1903)
• Duranbah (1905)
• TSS Kempsey (1907)
• (1907)
• Eumeralla (1908)

Further reading

• Book: Middlemiss, Norman L . 1995 . British Shipbuilding Yards . 3 . Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Shield .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Scott of Kinghorn . 27 June 2012 . Grace's Guide: The Best of British Engineering 1750–1960s . 15 February 2015.