The Launch of the Silverhawk

The Lord Mayor Councillor Frank Prendergast tells us about his experience at the Launch of the Silverhawk from Cammell Lairds in 1968.

Cammell Laird, one of the most famous names in British shipbuilding during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came about following the merger of Laird, Son & Co. of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co. of Sheffield at the turn of the twentieth century.

Here’s a video we found on youtube visualising a 30 year history of Cammell Lairds from 1929 to 1958.