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 | |
| 1877 | Sank after collision 1887 | |
| 1899 | Sank 1909 | |
| 1946 | Sank after catching fire, 1969 | |
| 1960 | Stricken 1993 | |
| 1891 | Sank 1918 | |
| 1916 | deleted 1940 | |
| 1959 | Scrapped 1986 | |
| 1898 | Sunk by torpedo 1917 | |
| 1911 | Sunk by torpedo 1917 | |
| Antares | 1916 | deleted 1936 |
| 1935 | Sunk by torpedo 1943 | |
| 1929 | Wrecked 1943, | |
| 1930 | Sunk by torpedo 1942 | |
| 1928 | Sunk by torpedo, 1943 | |
| 1923 | Sunk by torpedo 1943 | |
| 1929 | Sunk by torpedo 1942 | |
| 1915 | Sunk as a target ship, 1938 | |
| 1924 | Scrapped 1960 | |
| 1917 | Scrapped 1931 | |
| 1955 | Scrapped 1977 | |
| SS Cara | 1905 | Sunk by torpedo 18 Feb 1942 by |
| 1942 | Scrapped 1949 | |
| SS | 1907 | Scrapped 1934 |
| 1919 | Scuttled 1955 | |
| SS Coot | 1892 | Wrecked 1908 |
| SS Crofton Hall | 1913 | Scrapped 1957 |
| 1899 | Wrecked on the Low Lee rocks, Mount's Bay, Cornwall, 1911 | |
| SS | 1909 | Wrecked 1927 |
| 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 | |
| 1904 | Scrapped 1948 | |
| SS Hardwicke Grange | 1921 | Sunk by torpedo 12 June 1942 by |
| 1883 | Sank 1894 | |
| SS | 1910 | Sunk 1942 |
| 1905 | Scrapped 1930 | |
| 1941 | Scrapped 1948 | |
| SS | 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 |
| 1925 | Sunk by torpedo 1943 | |
| 1941 | Scrapped 1952 | |
| 1940 | Sunk by enemy action, 1943 | |
| 1954 | Scrapped 1977 | |
| HMS Lychnis | 1917 | Transferred to the Royal Indian Navy 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 | Sunk by a mine, 1945 | |
| 1938 | Grounded and wrecked in the North Sea off Norfolk, 1939 | |
| 1926 | Sunk by torpedo 1 May 1941 by | |
| 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 | |
| SS | 1911 | Foundered 1936 |
| 1935 | Scrapped 1954 | |
| 1938 | Scrapped 1957 | |
| 1939 | Bombed and wrecked 1940 | |
| 1909 | Bombed and sunk 1944 | |
| 1907 | Sunk by torpedo 1917 | |
| 1917 | Sold for commercial use 1921 | |
| 1941 | Scrapped 1948 | |
| 1959 | Sank after explosion 1979 | |
| 1934 | Renamed Alfred Olsen. Sunk by torpedo 1941 | |
| 1908 | Sunk by torpedo 1918 | |
| 1882 | Sunk 1889 | |
| 1896 | Scrapped 1924 | |
| SS Zara | 1897 | Sunk by torpedo 1917 |
William Hamilton also built a floating dock for Surabaya in 1912.