Fleming and Ferguson

[1] William Y. Fleming and Peter Ferguson (1840–1911) founded the company in Paisley, Scotland in 1877, making marine steam engines.

[1] In 1885 they expanded into shipbuilding by taking over the business and Phoenix Shipyard of H. McIntyre & Co.,[1] which had built 122 ships since 1877,[2] including PS Waverley (1885) for Campbell of Kilmun.

In 1898 it built the stern wheel paddle steamer PS Premier and exported it in sections for reassembly at Maryborough, Queensland in Australia.

The firm's main specialisms were vessels such as dredgers, barges, tugboats, floating cranes, lighthouse tenders and, in 1904, the icebreaker Champlain.

In 1946 Fleming and Ferguson built the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation stern wheel paddle steamer PS Lugard II, which plied the Albert Nile in Uganda.