Steel, Ships and Men: Cammell Laird and Company 1824-1993

by Kenneth Warren

The firm of Cammell Laird originated in a boiler works in 1824 before growing and diversifying to become one of a small number of companies worldwide which could build, armour and arm the largest warships from the operations of a single company group. After World War I, it was reconstructed as a naval and mercantile shipbuilder with important financial interests in steel and rolling stock manufacture. Booming activity in World War II and continuing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853239223
• ISBN13: 9780853239222
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 240 Pages