Royal Yachts

In the 1890s Inglis reputation was world wide and in 1894 they built the SAFA-EL-BAR, a Royal Yacht for the Kedive of Egypt.

This was followed in 1907 by a contract to build a new Royal Yacht for King Edward VII. ALEXANDRA was a handsome clipper bowed vessel capable of being driven at 20 knots by her three Parsons steam turbines.

Soon after that vessel the yard received its first order for a naval craft - the destroyer HMS FURY being built in 1911.

After the Great War their was a general slump in shipbuilding and in 1919 the Inglis family sold the yard and the Company to the Belfast-based shipbuilder Harland & Wolff but the yard continued to trade under its own name for another 43 years.

Harland & Wolff were rapidly expanding their presence on the Clyde at that time also taking control of the D & W Henderson yard at Meadowside on the opposite side of the Kelvin from Inglis, the Caird shipyard at Greenock and developing a large new yard under their own name at Govan, directly across the Clyde from Inglis yard. Inglis continued to thrive under H&W control building all types of vessel from coasters to cargo liners and cableships.

The handsome Royal Yacht

ALEXANDRA