shipbuilding founded 1818 glasgow headquarters plymouth devon england products naval ships merchant ships marine engines parent swan hunter 1912 1977 website www.seawindmarine.com seawind barclay curle is a british shipbuilding company . history edit the former north british diesel engine works and disused titan crane at barclay curle s clydeholm yard in whiteinch . the company was founded by robert barclay at stobcross in glasgow scotland during 1818 . 1 in 1862 the company built a large engineering works at stobcross in glasgow . in 1876 the company moved their yard down the river to whiteinch . it was incorporated in 1884 as barclay curle . 1 in 1912 barclay curle acquired the nearby elderslie shipyard in scotstoun from john shearer & sons to take the excess orders that the firm s existing clydeholm yard in whiteinch could not handle . barclay curle itself was acquired in 1912 by swan hunter . 1 in 1913 the north british diesel engine works was built at the company s clydeholm shipyard in whiteinch a seminal modernist building designed by karl bernhard and supervised by john galt that was influenced by peter behrens 1909 aeg turbine factory in berlin and continues to stand today . in 1920 a large titan crane was constructed on the quayside adjacent to the engine works at the clydehom yard by sir william arrol & co. to enable transfer of engines for fitting out of ships berthed alongside . it remains one of four examples to remain on the river clyde along with those at finnieston clydebank and greenock . during the first world war the barclay curle yard built several insect class gunboats for the royal navy . 1 the swan hunter owned barclay curle ceased building ships in its clydeholm shipyard at whiteinch glasgow in 1968 focusing its operations on its tyneside yards . the elderslie dockyard which lay further west on the other side of scotstoun and operated by barclay curle was acquired by yarrow shipbuilders in 1974 . the north british diesel engine works continued and was purchased by the marine engineering company sulzer 1 until it was nationalised as part of british shipbuilders under the aircraft and shipbuilding industries act 1977 and transferred production to naval weapon systems by british aerospace sea dart and sea wolf missiles in the late 1970s finally becoming an industrial estate in the mid 1980s . as part of the seawind group the company is no longer based in glasgow but retains shiprepair facilities in birkenhead merseyside and at appledore devon . the company records of the barclay curle company are held by the university of glasgow archives . 2 references edit a b c d e grace s guide barclay curle national archives external links edit barclay curle archive at university of glasgow shipyards of the clyde ferguson lithgows scott stephen fairfield h & w yarrow connell barclay curle henderson inglis denny john brown lobnitz beardmore retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title barclay curle & oldid 743905322 categories shipbuilding companies of scotlandshipbuilding companies of england1818 establishments in scotlandmarine engine manufacturerscompanies based in glasgowdefunct companies of scotlandcompanies based in plymouth devonmanufacturing companies established in 1818hidden categories use dmy dates from july 2015use british english from july 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 23 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view