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The Burntisland Shipbuilding Company was a shibuilder and repairer in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland that was founded in 1918. In 1969 it was taken over by Robb-Caledon Shipbuilders, which in turn was nationalised in 1977 as part of British Shipbuilders. In the 1970s the Burntisland yard switched from shipbuilding to prefabricating modules of superstructure for offshore oil platforms, but orders were intermittent and by the 1980s the yard was largely idle. In 1990 new owners returned the yard to production as Burntisland Fabrications or BiFab, resuming the manufacture of superstructure modules for oil platforms. Under a management buyout in 2001 the Burntisland yard returned to being an independent company. ==Founding and early years== Brothers Amos and Wilfrid Ayre founded Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. in 1918 as a First World War emergency shipyard.〔 Its yard at Burntisland West Dock had four berths and capacity to build ships up to long〔 and up to beam. However, until the 1950s Burntisland built relatively few vessels more than about long and beam.〔 The yard was connected to the North British Railway by an extensive internal rail network that carried steel to various parts of the yard.〔 Burntisland's first three vessels were standard "C" type cargo ships〔 of just over 3,100 GRT each for the UK Government's wartime Shipping Controller, laid down in 1918 as hull numbers 101, 102 and 103.〔 They were after the Armistice: hull 101 in June as , 102 in September as and 103 in November as .〔 Burntisland's first peacetime order was for a pair of 2,300 GRT cargo steamers for Compagnie Lasry of Oran, Algeria.〔 Hulls 104 and 105 were as ''Nelly Lasry'' and ''Sidney Lasry''.〔 In the 1920s the yard built merchant ships ranging from coasters of about 600 tons to ocean-going cargo ships of up to 4,700 tons GRT.〔 Most common were ocean-going four- or five-hold〔 tramp steamers of 1,500 to 2,500 tons.〔 The yard also built a number of arch-deck colliers〔 from 900 to 2,300 tons GRT.〔 Burntisland built numerous flatiron colliers with low superstructures, hinged funnel and hinged or telescopic mast(s) to fit under bridges upriver from the Pool of London on the River Thames.〔 Burntisland's first flatiron was hull 119, as the 932 GRT coastal collier ''Wandle'' for the Wandsworth, Wimbledon and Epsom District Gas Company.〔 From 1923 to 1946 Burntisland built a further 11 colliers for the same customer, which from 1932 was called the Wandsworth and District Gas Company.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Burntisland Shipbuilding Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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