Leith-Built Ships. Volume 3 Henry Robb Ltd. (1945-1965)

'Leith-Built Ships' is a testimony to the skill of the men who built the ships and to the many men and women who may have sailed or served on them. The story continues in this volume from just after the conclusion of World War Two to 1965. However, the world was different; the men came back from the front and those women who had been working in the shipyards lost their jobs. All shipyards were experiencing full order books, replacing, or repairing ships lost or damaged in the conflict, but the industry was changing albeit slowly at first. The advent of electric welding would eventually change the way ships were built leading to the demise of the Rivet Squad, which was replaced as a cost cutting exercise as it became the accepted method of ship construction.