George Brown & Co. Limited (George Brown & Co. (Marine) Limited from 1937) was a ship building and repair company which operated from the Garvel Park Shipyard,

Greenock Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council areas of Scotland, council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh of barony, burgh within the Counties of Scotland, historic ...

, Scotland. It was incorporated in 1901 by its eponymous founder, formerly general manager of Denny's Shipyard in

Dumbarton Dumbarton (; also sco, Dumbairton; ) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary. In 2006, it had an estimated population of 19,990. Dumbarton was the ca ...

. The first ship built by the company was the ''Princess Beara'', built for the Bantry Bay Steamship Company and launched 24 June 1901, and the last was ''Wilton'', a

buoy A buoy () is a floating device that can have many purposes. It can be anchored (stationary) or allowed to drift with ocean currents. Types Navigational buoys * Race course marker buoys are used for buoy racing, the most prevalent form of yac ...

tender for the Tees & Hartlepool Port Authority which was launched on 17 December 1982. The company was liquidated in 1983 as a result of its failure to secure new orders and its assets auctioned on 24 February 1983.

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