78 1978 Lagoven Santa Rita D / H / P Hebburn 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. 92-93 112,000 Tanker - Cancelled It was only the yards ability to build every type of ship that kept it going. 1946. 114 1982 Osco Ingram Osprey D / H / P Neptune 7 1970 Grey Rover D / H / P Hebburn Maxtone-Graham, John (1972), Page 25, The Only Way to Cross. These two ships were super cargo-liners and had much of their cargo spaces refrigerated and they could carry 11,034 tons of cargo. And ChronicleLive has pieced together a list of things you would only know if you worked at Swan Hunter. Built in 1965 as a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry, she spent much of her later life as one of the permanently moored Tuxedo floating nightclubs before being laid up, latterly on the River Tees in Middlesbrough. [17], In 2001, Swan Hunter acquired Kvrner's Port Clarence offshore yard at Teesside[18] but then in 2006 sold it to Wilton Engineering Group. The Grand Trunk Steamship Prince George, and sister ship SSPrince Rupert, provided passenger service along the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. 61 1978 Newcastle D / H / P Neptune At the time, the company had 40 employees and contractors. 30. 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). 129 1993 Fort George D / H / P Wallsend 1337 1978 Starman Anglia D / H / P Neptune 132 1991 James Clark Ross D / H / P Wallsend 109 1985 Ark Royal D / H / P Wallsend 1921-23 The yard closed in 1921 until 1923 and then focussed on building Great Lakes Steamers. TS Leda was operated by Bergen Line between Britain and Norway as a North Sea ferry for over 20 years from . She was captured in battle on 31 October 1956 by the Israeli Navy and re-commissioned as INS Haifa (K-38). 1954 The light aircraft carrier Albion was completed, having lain incomplete since being launched at the yard in 1947. During this period, merchant construction totalled 290,599 grt including a number of different ships, vessels and floating docks. 65 1975 Yorkshire D / H / P Hebburn Dock & Walker 37 1971 Sheaf Field D / H / P South Shields There was also a veranda cafe, music room, smoking room and de-luxe suites. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. It was a major employer for decades and some of the worlds most famous ships were built there. Shipbuilder: Swan Hunter Ltd (1983 - 1994) Along with her two sisters Blake and Tiger (completed on the Clyde), these ships were the last Royal Navy Cruisers. A giant oil tanker was a common sight at the end of Leslie Street in Wallsend. 123 1988 Sheffield D / H / P Neptune But in 2006 Swan Hunter stopped building vessels on Tyneside, but continued to provide design engineering services. Kharg entered the Suez Canal on 22 February 2011, with the frigate Alvand, on a deployment reported to be a training mission to Latakia, Syria. [1][23], In 2016, Jaap Kroese died but the company said it would continue with its business of ship design. Motor liner Dominion Monarch. 62 1979 Glasgow D / H / P Neptune The last ship built at Wallsend was the Shields ferry "Pride of the Tyne". [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. 32 1970 Nigaristan D / H / P South Shields 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. people who designed and built them. 25. Modern machinery has been laid down for the rapid execution of work, and in addition to the shipyard the premises comprise the yard for constructing floating docks; the engine and boiler works, which have together an annual output capacity of 60,000 ihp; a dry dock, 550ft. Southampton a Type 42 destroyer was brought to the Tyne on a heavy lift ship, after it collided in the Persian Gulf , and re-built at Hebburn yard. 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 . Above: Select the required shipbuilder by using initial letter of the surname eg: Armstrong, Palmer or Readhead. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. 48 1972 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill Many other large ships were produced including the Great Central Railway Companys Immingham 2009/06 with room for 393 passengers and propelled by triple-screw turbine machinery. 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]. 5. 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 . 8 1970 Blue Rover D / H / P Hebburn Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, L. A. Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry: A Guide to Historical Records (1992). RM 2CGP4J8 - Tanker Tyne Pride, Leslie Street, Wallsend, Swan Hunter Shipbuilders, 1975 1912 Largest floating dock ever completed for the Admiralty. 3. This latter acquisition gave the company an unbroken river frontage of some 4,000 feet, and works covering nearly 80 acres, 1904 Output of two yards combined. Swan Hunter put Wallsend on the map and those who were employed at the yard formed life long friendships. She left service in 1935. 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 . All three were on the north side of River Tyne. 1939. 91 1976 Hindustan D / H / P South Shields Date Country Builder Location . The last of these Z tankers was completed as the engines-aft War Krishna in November 1919, the only one of its type. The vessel could also carry 9243 tons of cargo. 70 1975 Groznyy D / H / P Neptune Three passenger cargo liners were also completed at this time for British India with accommodation for 130 cabin-class passengers and 2000 Indian deck passengers. 1953. List of Shipbuilders & Ships Built List of Shipbuilders & Ships Built : Aalborg Vaerft A/S, Aalborg, Denmark : Makati : A.G. Weser, Bremen, Germany . The RMS Mauritania was an ocean liner, built by Wigham Richardson and Swan Hunter and designed by Leonard Peskett. Sugar soap was used to wash dirty hands. [1], 1903 The directors at the company formation were:[2]. Shipbuilder: Swan Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders Ltd (1969-1983) Shipbuilder: Swan Hunter Ltd (1983 - 1994) More: History People Photos KEY BELOW: D - Dimensions; H - History; P - Photographs 4 hatch and no.5 hatch was in the aft well deck. 44 1972 Zaida D / H / P South Shields Southampton Castle was launched by Princess Alexandria and reached speeds of 23 knots and this one vessel replaced two passenger liners on the weekly South African schedule. The Tyne Pontoons and Dry Docks Co whose installations lay between the Wallsend West Yard and Neptune Works, was purchased to form the Dry Docks Department. Whitley, M. J. 100 Not allocated 126 1990 Chatham D / H / P Neptune 8. 19. 121 1985 Atlantic Conveyor D / H / P Wallsend Swan Hunter Wigham Richardson Wallsend river tyne, ship builder, shipbuilder, ship, vessel, warship, liner, cargo, tanker, bulk carrier, tug TYNE BUILT SHIPS A history of Tyne shipbuilders and the ships that they built Home Shipbuilders Ships River Views About Copyright Select Shipbuilder A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ The ships were built in the design of Alexander Handyside & Co, Glasgow. 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) [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. 41-43 Container ships - Cancelled The first-class entrance hall featured an overlay marquetry panel of the world over the staircase so passengers could trace the course of the ship. . Even a minute late meant you were docked quarter of an hour pay. The Chinese train ferry Changkiang (2362/32), the Norwegian fruiter Crawford Ellis (2161/30) for H. Staubo. H.M.S. List of British tonnage ships built by Swan Hunter This is a list of British ships built by Swan Hunter in the last twenty years of the 19th century and the first three decades of the 20th. 1947 A number of tramps and a few coastal tankers and barges were completed by the end of 1947 then the yard closed in 1947. . The dry docks in Govan (also owned by Barclays) were also acquired as was Barclaay's Clydeholm yard. The last liner built in the UK was built at the Neptune yard, the Norway - America cruise liner Vistafjord in 1973. This was a meaningless name which was quickly changed to Swan Hunter Group by November of the same year. TSS Dover, (later the Earl Siward, Sol Express and now the Tuxedo Royale), is a British retired ferry. 103 1977 Apapa pontoons Wallsend 98 1980 Kharg 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. 84 260,000 Tanker - Cancelled Their premises were adjacent to one another on the deep bend of the Tyne on its north bank, about three miles east of Newcastle, together an area of 78 acres, with a river frontage of some 4,000ft, the shipyard and engine and boiler shops of the Neptune works being nearest to Newcastle, the dry docks department at Wallend east and north of them, and the Wallsend Shipyard at the end of the bend nearest to the sea. 139 Not allocated 14. James Elroy Flecker (1884-1919) " Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. 73 1977 Gudermes D / H / P Hebburn Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and 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. 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. 12 1970 Faraday D / H / P Hebburn [16] By July 2006, the costs had risen to 309 million and only one ship had been delivered. [11], The Company was privatised again in 1987 but decided to close its Neptune Yard in 1988. This page was last edited on 23 April 2019, at 09:41. 24 1971 Mulbera D / H / P Neptune 18 1970 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill List of ships built at Swan Hunter (Neptune) Login to Edit: From: 1965: Support Ship: OL class: 1966: Support Ship: Ness class: 1973: Guided-Missile Destroyer: Type 82 . The ship featured an all-welded aluminium superstructure for lightness and was one of the first liners to make use of this metal. The workshop is lighted throughout by electricity and with accommodation for both workmen and crew. 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. [7]. He became a Director of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson in 1945. 113 Not allocated [5], In 1966, Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson merged with Smiths Dock Company to form Associated Shipbuilders, which later became Swan Hunter Group. 1091 1979 Cardiff D / H / P Hebburn information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the and 26in.. with a stroke of 15in. information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the Of the 73, two . 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). 23 1971 Morvada D / H / P Neptune Lewis took on the subject of debt during his Money Show instalment on Tuesday - explaining how to clear off multiple debts in a simple but effective manner, by following the 'snowballing' technique. 89 1978 Desdemona D / H / P Hebburn Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) " I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep ". 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. 15. Their bid was successful, and the new company, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, went on to build what was to become, in its day, the most famous ocean going liner in the world. Cunard Line took delivery of a cargo-liner for Transatlantic services. ISBN -905617-67-3. 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She was rebuilt in 1981 as a cruise liner and later became an accommodation vessel at a penal colony for terrorists and members of the Mafia. 56 1974 Alnwick Castle D / H / P Walker As always you can unsubscribe at any time. KEY BELOW: D - Dimensions; H - History; P - Photographs Two French cargo-liners were also manufactured and a variety of vessels were made for France, Holland, Indo-China. The only battleship built at Wallend was HMS. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 1939 A second liner was completed for Polish Ocena Lines as sister for their Chrobry of 1939. 80 1978 Trinculo D / H / P Hebburn Dock The name of the pub that sat between Wallsend yard and the Dry Docks was the "Ship in the hole". She has been the only British Warship so far to bear this name. 111 1985 York D / H / P Neptune 1946 Tanker production resumed, which was a major feature of the yards output until they amalgamated with the other yards on the river in 1968. 135 1994 Westminster D / H / P Wallsend 1940 de Havilland bought the shares in Airspeed. The aircraft carrier was launched nine days later. 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. 1903 C. S. Swan and Hunter merged with Wigham Richardson and Tyne Pontoons and Dry Docks Co specifically to bid for the prestigious contract to build the Mauretania for Cunard. manufacturing in Britain. The ship was well-loved by passengers and won both Eastbound and Westbound . 7. The ship is the aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious, The cruise ship Vistafjord at North Shields leaving the River Tyne in April 1973 after her sea trials, The destroyers HMS Exeter, HMS Southampton and HMS Nottingham awaiting disposal in Portsmouth dockyard, Wallsend-built Mauretania leaves the Tyne, 1907. 1930 When the Depression started the yard had completed fifty ships. In cases where no official launching ceremony was held, the date built or completed may be used instead. Photos Steamship Leda. 134 Allocated to refit work Work began picking up from late 1935 with three cargo-liners completed for three different companies leading to further orders. and that's madness, Lear's song. 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." HMS Hunter was a H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. 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. USS Merrimac (1894) Brazilian aircraft carrier Minas Gerais SS Miowera N HMS Newcastle (D87) Noosfera (icebreaker) HMS Northumberland (F238) O HMS Orby (1918) P HMS Pasley (1916) HMS Pellew (F62) Greek destroyer Pindos MV Port Fairy HMS Port Napier SS Prince George SS Prince Rupert SS Princess Alice (1911) SS Princess Victoria SS Prncipe Perfeito Give blue-eyed men their swivel chairsTo whirl in tall buildings.Allow them many ships at sea,And on land, soldiersAnd policemen.Arna Bontemps (19021973), Bring me my Bow of burning gold:Bring me my Arrows of desire:Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!Bring me my Chariot of fire!I will not cease from Mental Fight,Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand,Till we have built JerusalemIn Englands green & pleasant Land.William Blake (17571827), But all is changed, that high horse riderless,Though mounted in that saddle Homer rodeWhere the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.William Butler Yeats (18651939), Miss J. More: She was launched in 1940 and served during the Second World War. 1961 Parent of group of five subsidiaries engaged as shipbuilders, marine engineers, ship repairers and builders of passenger liners, cargo ships, oil tankers, ore carriers and cable ships, warships and floating docks. "Varicella". 35 1971 Stolt Lion D / H / P Hebburn In April 2007, Swan Hunter's cranes, along with its floating dock and other equipment, were sold to Bharati Shipyards, India's second-largest private-sector shipbuilder. She saw service in the Second World War and later as an Egyptian Navy ship in the Suez Crisis. 1939. 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. C.S. Swan Hunter: Wallsend: 74-75 LNG Tanker - Cancelled They were also tramp owners at this time. 29. The follow on orders were Umtali (8135/36) and Umgeni (8180/38) both had accommodation for over 100 passengers on their South African run. Every Friday bars of Castle Soap were handed out to workers to take home. 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. Alas for the Hunter Race! 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. General Transportes Maritimes (SGTM) as a replacement for their Campana built at the Neptune Yard in 1929. She was scrapped in 1962. 1937 The Admiralty placed an order for a 30,000 ton destroyer. [26] The company announced further equipment pool growth through a 15Te tensioner and 450Te reel drive system. The former pair were in the three-quarters aft position. [6]. "Barrow ship order dismays Tyneside". Princess Astrid had travelled to the launching from Norway on Leda (6670/53) of Bergen Line which she had also launched at the yard on 3rd September 1952. Specialities: floating docks of every type, ships from plain cargo boats to the highest-class of passenger liner such as the Cunard SS Mauretania. [43], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}545912N 13143W / 54.98675N 1.52856W / 54.98675; -1.52856, Shipbuilding design, engineering and management company, Modern timeline of British shipbuilding companies, 1960present. Date Country Builder Location completed as the engines-aft War Krishna in November 1919, the Date built or may. Wallsend: 74-75 LNG Tanker - Cancelled they were also tramp owners at this.... 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