Alexander Hall and Sons

Alexander Hall and Sons built ships in Aberdeen from 1797 to 1957.

The firm is particularly remembered for the Aberdeen or clipper bow developed in the late 1830s.

Alexander Hall took over his father-in-law’s shipbuilding business Cochar and Gibbon in 1790 to found Alexander Hall and Company.

One ship later developed was the Jho Sho Maru, a barque-rigged steamer, built in the 1860s for the Japanese Navy.

See also

• Flying Spur (clipper)
• Japanese battleship Ryūjō (1864)