Anthony’s son John joined the firm in the 1860s. About that time he married Agnes Denny, a member of the great Dumbarton based shipbuilding family. Later in life John was to become a Director of the North British Railway Company and the Pointhouse yard was to build 13 paddle vessels for the NB and their successor, the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER)

In the 1870s Inglis built four paddle steamers for the famous Hong Kong based John Swire Group for their services in the Yangtse River, the largest being the 3090 ton INCHANG of 1873. Another notable vessel produced by Inglis was the 4000 ton tanker BAYONNE in 1889, the first such vessel for the American Standard Oil (Esso).

A second WAVERLEY was built in 1899 for the NB - this time for their Firth of Clyde routes out of Craigendoran. She was to become one of the most notable Clyde steamers of all time serving her country in two World Wars, Sadly she was lost on her way back from the Dunkirk beaches in May 1940 with significant loss of life.

At the start of the present century the Pointhouse yard produced two sturdy little craft for MacBrayne’s West Highland services; the screw steamer SHEILA and the paddle steamer PIONEER. It is fitting that the present WAVERLEY has followed in the wake of those two vessels in her own forays to the Hebrides in recent years.

The single screw steamer AZALEA was built by Inglis in 1878 for the Laird Line Glasgow - Dublin service