shipbuilding Flashcards
prior to the war how many Scots did the shipbuilding industry employ and what percentage of a specific population relied on it in one way or another
prior to the war shipbuilding employed 100,000 scots
14% of the adult Scottish male working population of scotland depended on the industry in one way or another
prior to the war how many ship yards were on the Clyde and who was an important source of orders for clyde yards
there were 40 shipyards on the clyde
the royal navy was an important source of orders for the clyde yards
durring the great war how was the shipbuilding industry?
which yards specifically were placed under government control
the shipbuilding industry thrived during the great war
Beardmores, Browns of clydebank and fairfield’s where all placed under government control
how much were these yards recieving orders worth?
£16million
output was high durring the war…..
between 1914-1918 a total of 481 warships were built on the clyde
skilled workers could not volenteer and what were they exempt from and after what year
how many workers did beardmore’s employ and what did they (along with browns do to keep workers)
after 1916 skilled workers within shipbuilding were also exempt from conscription after 1916
by 1915 beardmores employed 20,000 scots workers - to keep workers browns and beardmores built more housing
after the great war what happened to shipbuilding
scottish shipbuilding went into decline after the great war
shipyards were returned to there pre-war owners and whilst initially there was a slight boom in production (building passenger liners and merchant ships lost due to the war) this only lasted until 1921
which foreign shipyards provided feirse competition and what happened alongside this
Scottish shipyards experienced fierce competition from foreign yards in japan and germany and alongside this the government drove prices down which meant ships were being built at a loss
from 1921-1923 the tonnage built on the clyde went down from 510,000 to 170,000
