Background to the shipowners

摘要

Hugh Hogarth of Ardrossan first operated steamships after moving to Glasgow in 1881, Hogarth's sons entered the business in 1901, and the carefully managed firm built up a large fleet of steamships, a legacy of which was a series of traditional motorships built at British yards in the late 1950s. Ralph Chapman of Newcastle, who had entered shipowning in 1878, operating as R. Chapman & Son from 1896 until becoming Chapman & Willan Ltd, had before the war taken delivery of several new ships from Short Bros of Sunderland, builder of a large number of tramp ships incorporating a split superstructure. This feature was effectively repeated in a series of seven ships built between 1957 and 1960 as Lynton, Crainton, Scorton, Amberton, Norton, Clearton and Brighton.