2 APRIL 1864, Page 3

The Clyde Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company has been started

this week, with a capital of 500,000/., in shares of 501. each. It has been formed with the object of purchasing and ex- tending the valuable and old-established business of Messrs. Smith and Rodger, Glasgow, a firm well known as successful ship- builders for many years. In addition to the above-named gentlemen, we notice amongst the directors the Right Hon. Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., and Admiral the Hon. Sir Montagu Stopford, B.C.B.