11. Illustrious & Ark Royal. 1909 a new design of train and passenger ferry completed for the Swedish Government. The public rooms featured tapestries, paintings, mosaics and glass-panelled walls. She was launched in 1940 and served during the Second World War. Swan Hunter was also instrumental in establishing the North British Diesel Engine Works at Whiteinch on the Clyde and effectively competed with itself for diesel engine orders during the difficult period of the 1920s. A pair of motor driven cargo-liners were placed by Silver Line: Silverpine and Silverlarch (both 5122/24) and Shaw, Savill & Albion Ltd; Coptic 10629/28 and Zealandic 11300/28. Including two banana boats completed for Elders & Fyffes. 66 1976 Kyra Lynn D / H / P Hebburn Dock & Walker 103 1977 Apapa pontoons Wallsend 79 1978 Lagoven Quiriquire D / H / P Hebburn At that time Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd. owned and operated three shipyards on the north bank of the Tyne (i.e. 1091 1979 Cardiff D / H / P Hebburn Steamship Leda. 1939. These were: Umtata (8141 grt) for Bullard, King; Explorer (6295 grt) for T&J Harrison; and Port Townsville (8661 grt) for Port Line. 137 1995 Richmond D / H / P Wallsend 1912 Largest floating dock ever completed for the Admiralty. At its apex, the company represented the combined forces of three powerful shipbuilding families: Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson. 1940 de Havilland bought the shares in Airspeed. Inkosi (6618/38) had room for 60 passengers on the West Indies run and the Port Line cargo-liners Port Halifax (5820/37) and fully refrigerated Port Jackson (9687/37). 1. The burned hulk was beached on Gravina Island where it remained for the next few years until it was towed to Seattle, Washington and broken up for scrap. The ships were built in the design of Alexander Handyside & Co, Glasgow. The last ship built at Walker shipyard was the container ship Dunedin. 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). Atlantic Conveyor was a British merchant navy ship, registered in Liverpool, that was requisitioned during the Falklands War. She was powered by four Doxford oil engines linked to four propellers and at times made 20 knots during her maiden voyage which took 24 days to complete. 32 1970 Nigaristan D / H / P South Shields Sign up for free to get the latest North East news and updates delivered straight to your inbox. 1911 to 1913 Two liners completed for Cunard plus three others. 105 1979 Royal Prince D / H / P Walker 1966 Sir E. John Hunter became Chairman of a much larger group in July 1966 when Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson merged with the Tees Yard of Smiths Dock Co to form Associated Shipbuilders. 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. 48 1972 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 109 1985 Ark Royal D / H / P Wallsend manufacturing in Britain. 1936 The Admiralty further built up their strength from 1936 with six destroyers completed over the next three years: Hunter, Hyperion, Janus, Khartoum, Somali and Tartar. Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) " I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep ". The launch of HMS York from Swan Hunters, Wallsend, in 1982. 41-43 Container ships - Cancelled Now with no p. Of the 73, two . [24], Also in 2016, Swan Hunter was relaunched into the subsea industry by Gerard Kroese, the eldest son of former owner Jaap Kroese. information and 236,926 images on early companies, their products and the The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company of Canada also had a similar sized ferry built by the yard in the same year: Prince Rupert 3379/09 and then a larger ferry two years later Princess Alice 5099/11. It is fitted with twin screw compound surface condensing engines, which have been constructed Messrs Baird Brothers of North Shields, the diameter of cylinders being 12in. 1924 Floating dock sizes rose to 55,000 tons with ones for Singapore Docks and the Admiralty plus five other small ones. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Its yards at Wallsend. 3 hold was the cross-bunker hold between bridge and engineer accommodation. Also in 1903 the Company took a controlling interest in the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, which was an early licensed manufacturer of Parsons steam turbine engines, which enabled Mauretania to achieve her great speed. 1903 Took a majority holding in Wallsend Slipway Co, which built the engines for some of its greatest ships. [5], 1914 Shipbuilders and repairers, engine manufacturers and floating docks. [14] However, the main shipyard in Wallsend was bought out from receivership by Jaap Kroese, a Dutch millionaire. Work began picking up from late 1935 with three cargo-liners completed for three different companies leading to further orders. Work on the Mauretania began as early as 1901, when Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson submitted plans for two ships. Both ships were fitted with powerful oil engines by Wallsend Slipway Co. 67 1977 Geroi Novorossiyska D / H / P Hebburn Dock 4. 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 . 1943 The yard was known as the National Shipbuilding Corporation (Wear) yard and began launching its own ships from December 1943. [6]. [21], Swan's performed the conceptual design of Pioneering Spirit, provisionally named Pieter Schelte, the world's largest platform installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel. Swan Hunter Built Warships A look at the hundreds of ships built by one of the main builders of the British naval vessels over a hundred years. 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. 38 1972 Chemical Venturer D / H / P Hebburn Even a minute late meant you were docked quarter of an hour pay. [6] The firm expanded rapidly in the early part of the twentieth century, acquiring the Glasgow-based Barclay Curle in 1912. In late 1942 workers from Joseph L. Thompson began working on the site and the yard rejuvenated itself again. 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]. 40 1973 Remuera D / H / P Walker ISBN -905617-67-3. Policy. 62 1979 Glasgow D / H / P Neptune However, the small coaster Peter G. Campbell, launched on 13th April 1933 was significant as she was the first all-welded ship from the yard. 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) This page was last edited on 5 February 2021, at 12:29. Ports of call were Tenerife, Cape Town, Durban, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington. As result of this, the second ship RFALyme Bay was transferred to BAE Systems Govan in Glasgow for completion. ". Families worked at the shipyard - fathers, sons, cousins, and friends became brothers. 30. Grace's Guide To British Industrial History, https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/index.php?title=Swan,_Hunter_and_Wigham_Richardson:_Ships_Built&oldid=1093483, Creative 1930s The twin funnelled whale factory ship Vikingen (14526/30) which was completed for the Viking Whaling Co. Ltd would return to the Wallsend Dry Docks at the end of each whaling season throughout the 1930s for overhauling. [12] It was then forced to call in the receivers when the UK government awarded the contract for HMSOcean to Kvaerner Govan in 1993. 4 1970 Esso Hibernia D / H / P Wallsend Swan Hunter, formerly known as Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, is a shipbuilding design, engineering, and management company,[1] based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England. Construct warships and many kinds of vessels for special purposes, laying submarine cables, carrying oil in bulk, fruit, frozen meat, cattle, railway trains etc. Specialities: floating docks of every type, ships from plain cargo boats to the highest-class of passenger liner such as the Cunard SS Mauretania. 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. Vindex survived the war and was reconditioned by the yard between August 1948 and June 1949 when she was renamed Port Vindex. 13. 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). Two small cargo liners were made for China Merchants S.N. 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]. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. 128 1989 Sir Eric Sharp D / H / P Wallsend we . Albion in 1950s' and H.M.S. 21 1970 Manora D / H / P Neptune 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.' She was named after the Heythrop Hunt. It was a major employer for decades and some of the world's most famous ships were built there. 104 1979 Crown Prince D / H / P Walker Ships built by Swan Hunter All items (83) # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other A SS Abukir CSS Acadia Greek destroyer Adrias Greek destroyer Adrias (L67) HMS Albion (R07) America Maru HMS Anson (79) HMS Ark Royal (R07) SS Atlantic Causeway SS Atlantic Conveyor B HMS Barfleur (D80) RFA Black Rover (A273) . 69 1975 Maykop D / H / P Hebburn 61 1978 Newcastle D / H / P Neptune Motor liner Dominion Monarch. 27. [10], Then in 1977, Swan Hunter Group was nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders. [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. All were steamers, mostly cargo carriers, and a few sailing ships. The Bank Line's cargo ship "Clydebank" ran aground off the Farne Islands when on trials. The yard covered 80 acres with river frontage of 4,000 feet. She was the largest Neptune ship when launched in September 1960 for Cia Nacional of Lisbon. 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. [22], In 2008, the company said it was concentrating on ship design with just under 200 people employed. 99 1976 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 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. The name of the poet and welder who wrote many odes' about life and personalities was Ripyard Cuddling (Jackie Davit) - which were always keenly anticipated throughout the company. Cunard Line took delivery of a cargo-liner for Transatlantic services. [26] The company announced further equipment pool growth through a 15Te tensioner and 450Te reel drive system. These were single screw turbine steamers with room for 201 first class and 40 second class passengers on the London to Gothenburg service. [11], The Company was privatised again in 1987 but decided to close its Neptune Yard in 1988. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Sunderland Ship Builders Ltd., Sunderland, England : Romney 3 / Napier Star 3 : Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd., Wallsend, England Hoegh Duke Rangatira Thomas Royden & Sons, Liverpool, England . 1933 There were very few completions during this year. 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