[1] The yard covered 22 acres (89,000 m2) and had five building berths capable of accommodating 400-500 ft boats of up to 9000 tons.
By 1969, some of the land was acquired by the McCrindle group, who continued the tradition of small shipbuilding in Ardrossan.
[6] They took over the yard number sequence of the earlier Ardrossan Dockyard, and became the last operating shipbuilder in the town.
McCrindle Shipbuilding finished their last ship, the trawler Spes Melior V, in 1990.
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