All were steamers, mostly cargo carriers, and a few sailing ships. 25. 3 1970 Esso Northumbria D / H / P Wallsend People Shipbuilder: Swan Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders Ltd (1969-1983) we . Drottning Victoria travelled between Sweden and Germany with room for 96 first class and 44 third class passengers as well as being able to carry trains. At each shipyard at least one guy had his name prefixed with Pedlar (Pedlar Joe, Pedlar Jack, etc). Anglo-Saxon/Shell (Mytilus 5716/16 and Oliva 5694/16) plus others 1918 The Shipping Controller took control of 18 WAR standard cargo ships consisting of 10 A and B tramps of 8300 dwt one of which was completed as an AO tanker, five Z tankers of 8800 dwt, one N type which was the first of 34 to be completed by British yards as War Climax on 28th September 1918 and one C1 coaster. [6] The firm expanded rapidly in the early part of the twentieth century, acquiring the Glasgow-based Barclay Curle in 1912. Swan Hunter put Wallsend on the map and those who were employed at the yard formed life long friendships. 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QSMV Dominion Monarch was a UK passenger and refrigerated cargo liner. On the deck of the vessel and enclosed in a large house is placed the workshop machinery, which consists of punching and shearing machine, lathe, steam hammer, drilling shaping, and screwing machines, smiths fires, straightening blocks, vice bench and anvil, etc., the whole of which is driven by electric motive power, which has been supplied by Messrs J. H. Holmes and Co. [19], In November 2006, after the failure to complete Lyme Bay within budget and resulting exclusion from future Royal Navy shipbuilding projects, Jaap Kroese announced that the business was effectively finished and placed the Wallsend Yard's iconic cranes up for sale. Other directors included his son George Ernest Hunter, Charles Sheriton Swan and his son. 11 1970 Emiliano Zapata D / H / P Hebburn Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. [20] During this time, Lyme Bay's earlier sister ship, Largs Bay, was noted as the last ship to be built and fully completed by Swan Hunter. 81 157,000 OBO - Cancelled Swan Hunter obtained a licence from the Swedish engine designer AB Diesel Motorer of Stockholm that became the basis for two different designs of Neptune engines introduced during the early 1920s, the so-called "A" and "B." 65 1975 Yorkshire D / H / P Hebburn Dock & Walker . As result of this, the second ship RFALyme Bay was transferred to BAE Systems Govan in Glasgow for completion. Every Friday bars of Castle Soap were handed out to workers to take home. Note: This is a sub-section of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 1903 'A FLOATING WORKSHOP FOR NATAL. It was launched in 1906 and was the world's largest ship until 1911 when the RMS Olympic was built - a sistership of the Titanic which was completed in 1912. 2. people who designed and built them. "Varicella". During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 the ship enforced the arms blockade imposed on both sides by Britain and France, until she struck a mine in May 1937. 123 1988 Sheffield D / H / P Neptune 103 1977 Apapa pontoons Wallsend As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Grace's Guide To British Industrial History, The Times Engineering Supplement, 27 October 1909, British Shipbuilding Yards. 33 1972 Rangatira D / H / P Walker In late 1942 workers from Joseph L. Thompson began working on the site and the yard rejuvenated itself again. The company also had a subsidiary salvage company called the Sunderland Salvage Company of Lindsay Swan, Hunter who undertook a number of major operations in the West Indies. The following are the principal particulars of this floating factory:The overall length is 129ft. Warship construction was intense including the battleship Anson (June 1942) along with four cruisers ordered in 1937: Mauritius (1940), Newfoundland (1941), Gambia (1942) and Superb (1943). 7. [15], In 2000, Swan Hunter was awarded the contract to design and build two (Auxiliary) Landing Ship Dock ships for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary with two other ships being built by BAE Systems Naval Ships: the cost of the two Swan Hunter ships was to be 210 million including 62 million for lead yard services, with an inservice date of 2004. Yd No Year Ship Name D / H / P Yard Shipbuilder: Swan Hunter Ltd (1983 - 1994) WWI The yard's key output was for the War effort. William Milburn also had five ships built by the Company (he had been a key customer in the 1880s) marking a shift to motor ships. The shipyards for which the operating company Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd was made responsible to the Corporation were Wallsend Shipyard, Neptune Shipyard, Walker Shipyard, Hebburn Shipyard and Hebburn Shipbuilding Dock. 17. 1933 There were very few completions during this year. C.S. Another notable vessel was Sirdhana (8608/47) which had room for 83 passengers in cabins. Her Parsons turbines built in Wallsend propelled her at 20 knots on a regular run between Lisbon and Beira, with room for 1000 passengers and 200 troops. The passenger and cargo liner El Kantera (5213/32) for Cie Na de Mixte of France was a valuable order along with the Norwegian cargo ship Fjordheim (4114/30) for Nils Rogenaes. 1939. This equates to one third of output. These were: Umtata (8141 grt) for Bullard, King; Explorer (6295 grt) for T&J Harrison; and Port Townsville (8661 grt) for Port Line. During 1933 the total tonnage amounted to only 11,033 grt with almost every shipyard worker laid idle. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Even a minute late meant you were docked quarter of an hour pay. At its apex, the company represented the combined forces of three powerful shipbuilding families: Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson. [13] The receiver took steps to break up the business. Dwarka was powered by Doxford oil engines and had accommodation for 50 passengers in cabins as well as many Indian deck passengers on her voyages to the Persian Gulf. She could reach a speed of up to 20 knots powered by geared turbines manufactured by Wallsend Slipway Co. Other liners completed by the yard in the early 1920s included two for Cunard, and three others for French companies. These were single screw turbine steamers with room for 201 first class and 40 second class passengers on the London to Gothenburg service. 1909 a new design of train and passenger ferry completed for the Swedish Government. 55 1975 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 21 1970 Manora D / H / P Neptune 1924 Floating dock sizes rose to 55,000 tons with ones for Singapore Docks and the Admiralty plus five other small ones. Branches of the North Eastern Railway run into and through the whole of the works, and bring them into communication with the numerous local collieries and steel works. 11. The basic design of the lifting systems was completed by the end of 2008, and detail design of the hulls by May 2010. Other vessels included 30 destroyers and destroyer escorts including 16 of the Hunt class. [7] The former flagship of the Royal Navy, HMSArk Royal was built at Swan Hunter during this period, entering service in 1985. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. She saw service in the Second World War and later as an Egyptian Navy ship in the Suez Crisis. 62 1979 Glasgow D / H / P Neptune 32 1970 Nigaristan D / H / P South Shields people who designed and built them. H.R.H Princess Anne launched two ships,Esso Northumbria and World Unicorn. Families worked at the shipyard - fathers, sons, cousins, and friends became brothers. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. text of this web site is available under the Creative Vindex survived the war and was reconditioned by the yard between August 1948 and June 1949 when she was renamed Port Vindex. [7]. There were also descendants of the Swan and Wigham Richardson families on the board at this time (S. C. Swan and George Wigham Richardson) as well as Peter Denham Christie, whose grandfather had been the first manager of the Neptune yard and whose father John Denham Christie had died in October 1950. 1912 A new four berth yard was opened under the Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson name at Southwick on the Wear (see below) to take up excess orders for tramps, colliers and Great Lakes steamers. text of this web site is available under the Creative 3. The Yard was closed because of the Depression, as its main owners had no use for it. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8. 47 1973 Frank D Moores D / H / P Hebburn Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and 137 1995 Richmond D / H / P Wallsend 1912 The Southwick yard was opened by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson as an overspill for its other yards, as it had excess orders for colliers, coasters and Great Lake Steamers from their main yards. Provence had room for 139 first class, 113 tourist class and 1052 third class passengers. [1][23], In 2016, Jaap Kroese died but the company said it would continue with its business of ship design. A new toilet was installed for the Queen Mother's visit in 1981. Swan Hunter started to offer specialist equipment, design, engineering & project management services to the offshore renewables and subsea oil & gas energy markets. 1931 The last ship to be built at the yard was Flathouse in 1931. 8 1970 Blue Rover D / H / P Hebburn Once a world leader. 4 1970 Esso Hibernia D / H / P Wallsend 37 reasons why you should marry a Geordie - and why you won't regret it, 22 things you should never say to someone from Newcastle, Remember these 12 Geordie employers that have disappeared but hold fond memories for those who worked there, 36 things about the North East which confuse even the people who live here, Remember these? 1961. He was the person who got your Woodbine cigarettes during the week and was reimbursed with cash when you got paid. Verily, the Indian has but a feeble hold on his bow now; but the curiosity of the white man is insatiable, and from the first he has been eager to witness this forest accomplishment. people who designed and built them. 105 1979 Royal Prince D / H / P Walker 1927 See Aberconway and Aberconway for information on the company and its history. 57 1976 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill Based in Wallsend Shipyard, Tyne and Wear, the company was responsible for some of the greatest ships of the early 20th century most famously, the RMS Mauretania, which held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, and the RMS Carpathia, which rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. 14. Shipbuilders Ships River Views About Copyright Above: Select the required shipbuilder by using initial letter of the surname eg: Armstrong, Palmer or Readhead. She was named after the Heythrop Hunt. The workshop is very easily handled, and steered remarkably well in the river. This crane has been made by Messrs Joseph Booth and Brothers, of Rodley. Motor liner Dominion Monarch. These orders kept the company afloat for much of the 1920s. On 1 May 2006, British pop-duo Pet Shop Boys performed their soundtrack to the 1925 Soviet silent-film Battleship Potemkin alongside the Royal Northern Sinfonia at the shipyard. Usually, in the company of the whale factory ships Sir James Clark Ross and C.A. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and Specialities: floating docks of every type, ships from plain cargo boats to the highest-class of passenger liner such as the Cunard SS Mauretania. This page was last edited on 23 April 2019, at 09:41. Illustrious & Ark Royal. SS Chancellor was a British cargo ship that was shelled and sunk by SMU-41 in the Atlantic Ocean 86 nautical miles (159km; 99mi) south by east of the Fastnet Rock, while she was travelling from Liverpool to New Orleans. 1337 1978 Starman Anglia D / H / P Neptune This web publication contains 147,919 pages of 138 Allocated to refit work [10], Then in 1977, Swan Hunter Group was nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders. The workshop is to be lifted to-day and secured for the voyage out, on to the deck the new floating dock, which has been built by Swan, Hunter, and Wigham-Richardson, Ltd., to the order the Natal Government.' 122 1984 Pacific Guardian D / H / P Neptune Warship construction was intense including the battleship Anson (June 1942) along with four cruisers ordered in 1937: Mauritius (1940), Newfoundland (1941), Gambia (1942) and Superb (1943). [1], 1903 The directors at the company formation were:[2]. 15 1971 Dart Atlantic D / H / P Walker Steamship Leda. RMS Mauritania was an ocean liner, built by Wigham Richardson and Swan Hunter and designed by Leonard Peskett. Oil cans with a piece of wood on top were used as seats on tea and lunch breaks. the white man has driven off their game, and substituted a cent in its place.Henry David Thoreau (18171862), The reason is:rats leave the sinking shipbut we . 27. Two French cargo-liners were also manufactured and a variety of vessels were made for France, Holland, Indo-China. wide at the entrance, and with a depth of water over the sill of 26.5ft; and two floating docks lifting vessels up to a length of 350ft [3]. She was fitted with reciprocating engines and exhaust turbines on separate shafts. 88 1978 Begonia D / H / P Walker The yard was now the world leader in floating gravity docks, it had a 33,000 ton lift for use at Portsmouth Dockyard. 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The Grand Trunk Steamship Prince George, and sister ship SSPrince Rupert, provided passenger service along the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. Co. Ltd. 1935 On the 4th April the Australian coastal line Duntroon (10346/35) was launched with room for 366 passengers for the Melbourne Steamship Co. Ltd along with two coasters for Polish Steamship Line (Puck and Hel both 1065 grt). 44 1972 Zaida D / H / P South Shields This category has the following 145 subcategories, out of 145 total. 1091 1979 Cardiff D / H / P Hebburn She has been the only British Warship so far to bear this name. The last ship built at Walker shipyard was the container ship Dunedin. In 2000 Swan Hunter was awarded the contract to design and build two (Auxiliary) Landing Ship Dock ships for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary with two other ships being built by BAE Systems Naval Ships: the cost of the two Swan Hunter ships was to be 210 million including 62 million for lead yard services, with an inservice date of 2004. The dry docks in Govan (also owned by Barclays) were also acquired as was Barclaay's Clydeholm yard. Employees 6,000 to 7,000. The yard completed pontoons and docks of all sizes to customers around the world. 120 1984 Orelia D / H / P Neptune She sailed on her maiden voyage on 30th March 1951 from Marseilles to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires via Barcelona and Lisbon. 1960. 37 1971 Sheaf Field D / H / P South Shields 91 1976 Hindustan D / H / P South Shields 1913 Reina Victoria-Eugenia, a magnificent Spanish liner of 9726 grt was completed for Cia Transatlantica. She was fitted with one of the last Swan Hunter-built Doxford oil engines as the Neptune engine works ceased production shortly afterwards. 60 1974 Black Rover D / H / P Neptune This was a large liner of 22576 grt, with room for 2530 passengers (244 first class with deluxe staterooms featuring private baths, showers and oak parquet flooring and tiled luxury bathrooms. Other SGTM vessels: Sidi del Abbes of 5226 grt (1948 95 first- class, 226 tourist-class, 573 third-class passengers, President de Cazalet (an exact sister ship also built in 1948 for the Cie de Navigation Mixte fleet). 1946 The Neptune Yard continued its established tradition of building cable ships when it completed the cable-layer Monarch of 8052 grt in February for the Postmaster General. 23. Acajutla (ship, 1911) (1 F) Afrique (ship, 1907) (13 F) Aggersund (ship, 1892) (1 F) HMS Albion (R07) (13 F) Alert (ship, 1918) (1 F) Amerika (ship, 1911) (1 F) HMS Anson (79) (40 F) Antarctic (ship, 1913) (1 C, 6 F) Arawa (ship, 1907) (1 F) HMS Ark Royal (R07) (210 F) Armagh (ship, 1917) (1 F) B Bali (ship, 1928) (38 F) A number of tramps were also manufactured which were ideal as grain carriers as they had steel, centre line bulkheads in their six holds, and plenty of portable wooden grain boards and trunks for their 9700 ton cargo. In the machine shops at the Neptune yard during WWI a lot of women were employed in making 300,000 shell casings for the Army. 12 1970 Faraday D / H / P Hebburn All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. 129 1993 Fort George D / H / P Wallsend General Transportes Maritimes (SGTM) as a replacement for their Campana built at the Neptune Yard in 1929. Construct warships and many kinds of vessels for special purposes, laying submarine cables, carrying oil in bulk, fruit, frozen meat, cattle, railway trains etc. James Elroy Flecker (1884-1919) " Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. 4 hatch and no.5 hatch was in the aft well deck. 52 1973 Forthbank D / H / P Hebburn 112 1983 B P Achiever D / H / P Hebburn Dock List of Shipbuilders & Ships Built List of Shipbuilders & Ships Built : Aalborg Vaerft A/S, Aalborg, Denmark : Makati : A.G. Weser, Bremen, Germany . This also coincided with the abandonment of Treaty limitations on battleship size. 101 1980 Exeter D / H / P Neptune Port Chalmers of 8535 grt in December 1933 and six small orders. 78 1978 Lagoven Santa Rita D / H / P Hebburn 1929 The twin-funnelled Frenchliner Campana was completed in 1929 for Soc. That elastic piece of wood with its feathered dart, so sure to be unstrung by contact with civilization, will serve for the type, the coat-of-arms of the savage. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. 40 1973 Remuera D / H / P Walker 61 1978 Newcastle D / H / P Neptune WW1 Twenty five large tankers were also completed by the yard before the outbreak of World War 1. 1937 The Admiralty placed an order for a 30,000 ton destroyer. [9] Meanwhile, Swan Hunter inherited both the Naval Yard at High Walker on the River Tyne of Vickers-Armstrongs[8] and the Hebburn Yard of Hawthorn Leslie in 1968. 29 1972 London Lion D / H / P Wallsend Prior to this, in 1939, he was appointed Assistant Manager of the Wallsend Dry Docks Dept, becoming General Manager in 1943. She was completed with four six inch guns as main armament. 139 Not allocated After many mergers and takeovers, nationalisation and de-nationalisation, the Swan, Hunter name continues as engineering consultants to the ship-building industry.. Perhaps the last cableship built by Swan Hunter was the Sir Eric Sharp, launched in 1988.Named after the chairmain of Cable & Wireless, the ship is still in service today, but under the new name of CS IT Intrepid after its purchase . Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) " I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep ". Makers of steam turbines and diesel engines of Doxford, Sulzer, Polar and Stork types, boilers of all types and oil burning installations for marine and land work[8]. The launch of HMS York from Swan Hunters, Wallsend, in 1982. Built at Swan Hunter in the United Kingdom and launched in 1977, she was delivered to Iran in 1984. 1920s Major customers were Ellerman Lines and British India Line owned by P&O: 13 liners were manufactured including: 1922 - City of Paris (10839/22) 349 passengers; City of Canterbury (8431/23 178 passengers; Commonwealth and Dominion Line (later to become Port Line in 1936) also ordered five cargo liners. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy 22. 1928 The car-carrier Seatrain (7624/28) was completed for Overseas Railway Inc of the U.S.A. and was a fore runner of the huge slab-sided car carriers of the present day. 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