William Hamilton and Company was a British shipyard in Port Glasgow, Scotland. The company was bought by Lithgows Ltd., which later became Scott Lithgow and was nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders in 1977.
During the Second World War the company built several vessels for the Royal Navy, including s.
Hamiltons built the Pacific Star for the Booth Steamship Company Ltd, which was leased to the Blue Star Line as Blue Star's only tanker.
Some of the merchant ships that Hamiltons built in the Second World War were armed as CAM ships, including and .
Ships built by William Hamilton Co Ltd
Ship Launched Fate 1879 Sank after collision 1903 1877 Sank after collision 1887 1899 Sank 1909 1946 Sank after catching fire, 1969 1960 Stricken 1993 1891 Sank 1918 1916 deleted 1940 1959 Scrapped 1986 1898 Sunk by torpedo 1917 1911 Sunk by torpedo 1917Antares 1916 deleted 1936 1935 Sunk by torpedo 1943 1929 Wrecked 1943, 1930 Sunk by torpedo 1942 1928 Sunk by torpedo , 1943 1923 Sunk by torpedo 1943 1929 Sunk by torpedo 1942 1915 Sunk as a target ship, 1938 1924 Scrapped 1960 1917 Scrapped 1931 1955 Scrapped 1977 SS Cara 1905 Sunk by torpedo 18 Feb 1942 by 1942 Scrapped 1949 SS 1907 Scrapped 1934 1919 Scuttled 1955 SS Coot 1892 Wrecked 1908 SS Crofton Hall 1913 Scrapped 1957 1899 Wrecked on the Low Lee rocks, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, 1911 SS 1909 Wrecked 1927 1891 Lost 1898 SS Empire Call 1944 Grounded and wrecked, 1945SS Empire Swordsman 1944 Scrapped 1968 SS Empire Trumpet 1943 Ran aground on Kish Island, Iran, 1966 SV Fitzjames 1902 1909-1929 Renamed Pinnas F. Laeisz, lost on Sea 1937 Sunk 1942Warships of World War II, H.T. Lenton & J.J. Colledge, Ian Allan 1973 1904 Scrapped 1948 SS Hardwicke Grange 1921 Sunk by torpedo 12 June 1942 by 1883 Sank 1894 SS 1910 Sunk 1942 1905 Scrapped 1930 1941 Scrapped 1948 SS 1900 Scrapped 1963 1942 Scrapped 1949 1940 Sunk by enemy action, 1941 1942 Scrapped 1949 SV Kurt 1904 Renamed Moshulu. Preserved as a restaurant in Philadelphia 1925 Sunk by torpedo 1943 1941 Scrapped 1952 1940 Sunk by enemy action, 1943 1954 Scrapped 1977 HMS Lychnis 1917 Transferred to the Royal Indian Navy in 1921 as HMIS Cornwallis 1888 Sank 1928 1940 Sunk by enemy action, 1943 1916 Scrapped 1951 1941 Sunk by enemy action on maiden voyage, 1941 1909 Sunk by a mine, 1945 1938 Grounded and wrecked in the North Sea off Norfolk, 1939 1926 Sunk by torpedo 1 May 1941 by 1916 Sold 1921 1956 Scrapped 1981HMS P13 1916 Scrapped 1923HMS P38 1917 Scrapped 1937HMS P57 1917 Sold to Egypt 1920, renamed El RaqibHMS P58 1917 Scrapped 1921 1954 Scrapped 1973 1916 Scrapped 1920 1918 Sold May 1921 1941 Sunk by enemy action, 1942 1915 Scrapped 1923 1942 Scrapped 1963 1941 Scrapped 1950 1939 Sank 1967 SS 1911 Foundered 1936 1935 Scrapped 1954 1938 Scrapped 1957 1939 Bombed and wrecked 1940 1909 Bombed and sunk 1944 1907 Sunk by torpedo 1917 1917 Sold for commercial use 1921 1941 Scrapped 1948 1959 Sank after explosion 1979 1934 Renamed Alfred Olsen. Sunk by torpedo 1941 1908 Sunk by torpedo 1918 1882 Sunk 1889 1896 Scrapped 1924SS Zara 1897 Sunk by torpedo 1917
William Hamilton also built a floating dock for Surabaya in 1912.
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