William Hamilton and Company
William Hamilton and Company was a British shipyard in Port Glasgow, Scotland. The company was bought by Lithgow 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 | |
| SV Ada Melmore | 1877 | Sank after collision 1887 |
| 1899 | Sank 1909 | |
| 1946 | Sank after catching fire, 1969 | |
| 1960 | Stricken 1993 | |
| 1891 | Sank 1918 | |
| Altair | 1916 | deleted 1940 |
| 1959 | Scrapped 1986 | |
| 1898 | Torpedoed and sunk 1917 | |
| 1911 | Torpedoed and sunk 1917 | |
| Antares | 1916 | deleted 1936 |
| 1935 | Torpedoed and sunk 1943 | |
| 1929 | Wrecked 1943, repaired 1948, broken up 1971 | |
| 1930 | Torpedoed and sunk 1942 | |
| 1928 | Sunk by U97, 1940 | |
| 1923 | Torpedoed and sunk 1943 | |
| 1929 | Torpedoed and sunk 1942 | |
| RFA Bacchus | 1915 | Sunk as a target vessel, 1938 |
| 1924 | Scrapped 1960 | |
| 1917 | Scrapped 1931 | |
| 1955 | Scrapped 1977 | |
| 1942 | Scrapped 1949 | |
| SS Charlton Hall | 1907 | Scrapped 1934 |
| SS Clan Matheson | 1919 | Scuttled 1955 |
| 1899 | Wrecked on the Low Lee rocks, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, 1911 | |
| SS Craster Hall | 1909 | Wrecked 1927 |
| SV David Morgan | 1891 | Lost 1898 |
| SS Empire Call | 1944 | Grounded and wrecked, 1945 |
| SS Empire Swordsman | 1944 | Scrapped 1968 |
| SS Empire Trumpet | 1943 | Ran aground on Kish Island, Iran, 1966 |
| 1937 | Sunk 1942 | |
| SV Hans | 1904 | Scrapped 1948 |
| 1883 | Sank 1894 | |
| 1905 | Scrapped 1930 | |
| 1941 | Scrapped 1948 | |
| SS Kerkenna | 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 |
| MV Limerick | 1925 | Torpedoed and sunk 1943 |
| 1941 | Scrapped 1952 | |
| 1940 | Sunk by enemy action, 1943 | |
| 1954 | Scrapped 1977 | |
| HMS Lychnis | 1917 | Transferred to the Indian Marine Service 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 | Sank after hitting a mine 1945 | |
| 1938 | Grounded and wrecked in the North Sea off Norfolk, 1939 | |
| 1916 | Sold 1921 | |
| 1956 | Scrapped 1981 | |
| HMS P13 | 1916 | Scrapped 1923 |
| HMS P38 | 1917 | Scrapped 1937 |
| HMS P57 | 1917 | Sold to Egypt 1920, renamed El Raqib |
| HMS 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 | |
| 1935 | Scrapped 1954 | |
| 1938 | Scrapped 1957 | |
| 1939 | Bombed and wrecked 1940 | |
| 1909 | Bombed and sunk 1944 | |
| 1907 | Torpedoed and sunk 1917 | |
| 1917 | Sold for commercial use 1921 | |
| 1941 | Scrapped 1948 | |
| 1959 | Sank after explosion 1979 | |
| 1934 | Renamed Alfred Olsen. Torpedoed and sunk 1941 | |
| 1908 | Torpedoed and sunk 1918 | |
| 1882 | Sunk 1889 | |
| SS Zara | 1897 | Torpedoed and sunk 1917 |