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This page contains a list of Clyde Built Ships
that were some of the top ships of their time. The
largest liners were built for the Atlantic Run
between English ports and New York.
Other large liners were built for the Canadian Run
between English Ports and Quebec, and between England
and South Africa. It is claimed that over 25,000
ships have been built on the River Clyde since the
first shipyard opened in 1712.
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Queen Elizabeth is a 72,000 ton aircraft carrier
completed in 2017. Her sister ship Prince of Wales
was completed in 2019. These are the largest warship
ever built in the UK. Most of the hulls of these
ships were built at BAE Systems Maritime in Govan on
the River Clyde, 3 miles west of Glasgow centre.
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RMS Queen Elizabeth was the largest ship ever
built on the River Clyde, at 83,676 tons. She was
built at the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, for
the Cunard Line. This ship was launched on the 27th
September 1938. She first entered service as a
troopship during WWII, then served on the Atlantic
run until 1968. This Queen Elizabeth was destroyed by
fire in Hong Kong Harbour, on the 9th January 1972.
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RMS Queen Mary was the second largest ship built
on the River Clyde, at 80,774 tons. She was built at
the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, for the Cunard
Line. This ship was launched on the 26th September
1934, then operated on the Atlantic run from the 27th
May 1936 - 19th September 1967. She was also operated
as a troopship during WWII. Queen Mary is now a
museum ship docked at Long Beach in California.
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QE2 was the third largest liner built on the River
Clyde at 65,863 tons. She was built at the John Brown
shipyard in Clydebank, for the Cunard Line. This ship
was launched on the 20th September 1967. The QE2 was
operated on the Atlantic run, and world cruises from
the 22nd April 1969, until her final voyage to Dubai
on the 11th November 2008 to serve as a museum/hotel
at Dubai.
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RMS Aquitania was the fourth largest liner built
on the River Clyde, at 45,646 tons. She was built at
the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, for the Cunard
Line. This ship was launched on the 21st April 1913,
then operated crossing the Atlantic until scrapped in
1950. Aquitania served in the two world wars. She was
one of the largest ships in service at that time,
built to compete with the three Belfast built 46,000
ton ships, Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic.
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SS Empress of Britain was a 42,348 ton liner built
at the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, for the
Canadian Pacific Line. This ship entered service on
the 27th May 1931, on the Canadian run between
Southampton and Quebec. The Empress of Britain was
sunk during WWII, off the coast of Ireland in October
1940, after being damaged by German aircraft, then
finished off by a submarine.
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RMS Lusitania was a 31,550 ton liner built at the
John Brown shipyard for the Cunard Line. This ship
entered service on the Atlantic Run on 7th September
1907. Lusitania was the fastest ship in the world at
that time, breaking a number of records. She was sunk
during WWI, off the coast of Ireland, on 7th May
1915, by a German submarine. 1,198 civilians lost
their lives in the attack, many of which were
Americans. America entered the war against Germany
soon after.
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HMS Duke of York was a 42,000 ton Battleship built
at the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank. This ship
entered service in November 1941, as one of five
sister ships in the King George V class. These were
the main British battleships of WWII. Duke of York
served throughout Europe, then in the Far East
against Japan. She survived the war only to be
scrapped at Faslane in about 1957.
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HMS Howe was a 42,000 ton Battleship built at
Fairfield Shipbuilding in Govan. This ship entered
service in August 1942, as one of five sister ships
in the King George V class, largest ever British
battleships. HMS Howe survived the wars in Europe and
the Far East, only to be scrapped at Inverkeithing in
1958.
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HMS Hood was a 41,000 ton Battle Cruiser built at
the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank. This ship was
the size of a battleship, but designed for speed with
light armour. She entered service in March 1920, as
the largest warship in the world, until WWII
battleships began entering service in the 1940s. The
Hood was sunk 24th May 1941, by the German Battleship
Bismarck. Only three of her crew survived, 1,414
officers and men went down with the ship.
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HMS Indefatigable was a 32,000 ton Aircraft
Carrier built at the John Brown shipyard in
Clydebank. This ship entered service in May 1944.
Indefatigable was operated in Europe before steaming
to the Far East. She was hit by a Japanese Kamikaze
aircraft, but remained operational. Indefatigable was
scrapped at Dalmuire and Troon in 1956.
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HMS Implacable was a 32,000 ton Aircraft Carrier,
built at Fairfield Shipbuilding in Govan. This ship
entered service in August 1944, seeing action in
Europe before being deployed to the Far East.
Implacable was the first British ship to be hit by a
Kamikaze. Her 5-inch armoured deck saved her from any
serious damage. She survived the war only to be
scrapped at Inverkeithing in 1955. Implacable and
Indefatigable were the two largest British carriers
during WWII.
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SS Caronia was a 34,183 ton liner built at the
John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, for the newly
merged Cunard/White Star Line. Nearing completion,
the company had this liner completed as a full time
cruise ship. From April 1949, she was mainly operated
on cruises out of New York to the West Indies and
South America. Caronia sunk in 1974, when being towed
to a ship breakers in Taiwan.
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MV Kungsholm was a 26,678 ton liner built at the
John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, for the Swedish
America Line. This ships maiden voyage was from
Gothenburg to New York on the 22nd April 1966.
Kungsholm was only operated on that route now and
again, as she was used more as a cruise ship. This
ship had a number of owners over the years before
being scrapped in India in 2016.
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SS Empress of Japan was a 26,032 ton liner built
at Fairfield Shipbuilding in Govan, for the Canadian
Pacific Line. This ship was operated on the Pacific
run between Canada and the Far East from 1930. She
served throughout WWII, also operated under the name
Empress of Scotland, after the Japanese attacks on
Pearl Harbour, and later as Hanseatic. This ship was
scrapped at Hamburg in 1967.
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The SS Empress of Britain was a 25,500 ton liner
built at Fairfield Shipbuilding in Govan, for the
Canadian Pacific Line in 1955. This ship, the third
to use this name, was mainly used to provide a
service between Liverpool or Greenock and Quebec and
Montreal. She was later operated as a cruise ship
under a number of names, before being scrapped in
India in 2008.
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RMS Franconia was a 20,158 ton liner built at the
John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, for the Cunard
Line. This ship was operated between Liverpool and
New York from 23rd June 1923 in summer, and as a
cruise ship in winter. After surviving WWII as a
troopship, she was operated on the Liverpool and
Greenock to Quebec run. Franconia was scrapped at
Inverkeithing in 1956.
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RMS Caronia was a 19,524 ton liner built at the
John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, as a sister ship of
the Carmania, for the Cunard Line. This ship was one
of the last to be fitted with the older steam piston
engines. Caronia was operated between Liverpool and
New York from 25th February 1905. She was used as an
armed merchant cruiser and troopship during WWI.
Caronia was then used between the Atlantic run and
cruising before being scrapped at Osaka/Japan in
1933.
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RMS Carmania was a 19,524 ton liner built at the
John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, for the Cunard
Line. This was one of the first large ships to be
fitted with steam turbine engines. Carmania was
operated between Liverpool and New York from 2nd
December 1905. She was operated during WWI as a
merchant cruiser and a troopship. After the war, she
was operated between the Atlantic run and as a cruise
ship. Carmania was scrapped at Blyth/England in
1932.
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RMS Windsor Castle was an 18,697 ton liner built
at the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, for the
Union Castle Line. This ship was operated between
Southampton and Cape Town from April 1922. Windsor
Castle was operated as a troopship during WWII. She
was sunk in the Mediterranean in 1943, by German
aircraft. All but one of the 291 crew and 2,699
servicemen on board were rescued.
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The SS Empress of Ireland was a 14,191 ton liner
built at Fairfield Shipbuilding in Govan, for the
Canadian Pacific Line. This ship was operated between
Liverpool and Quebec from 29th June 1906. The Empress
of Ireland sunk 29th May 1914, after colliding with
the Norwegian collier ship Storstad, close to the
mouth of the St Lawrence River. This was the worst
ever-Canadian maritime disaster, as 1,012 of the
Empress of Ireland's passengers and crew lost their
lives.
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SS City of New York was a 10,508 ton steamship
built at the John Brown shipyard in Clydebank, for
the American based Inman Line. This was the first
twin propeller ship operated on the Atlantic run from
1888. Her sister ship City of Paris, built by J &
G Thomson of Clydebank, entered service the following
year. These were the fastest ships on the Atlantic
run at that time, capable of 20 knots. These ships
were scrapped in 1922 and 1923.
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Glenlee is a 1,613 ton sailing vessel completed in
1896 by Anderson Rodger & Company of Port
Glasgow, for the Glen-line of the Glasgow shipping
company Archibald Sterling & Co. Ltd. This ship
was a bulk cargo carrier that circumnavigated the
globe four times. She was owned by the Spanish navy
from 1922 to 1981. The Glenlee is now berthed at the
Riverside Museum in Glasgow to serve as a
museum ship.
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