1921-23 The yard closed in 1921 until 1923 and then focussed on building Great Lakes Steamers. 20 1970 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill The weight of this cable and repeaters was so great that Monarch had to make three loadings on her drums to complete the task. . 133 Allocated to refit work people who designed and built them. This meant the company had the capability of producing many sets of steam turbines, Bauer-Wach exhaust turbines and triple expansion steam reciprocating engines both on the Clyde and at the Neptune Engine Works on the Tyne. This also coincided with the abandonment of Treaty limitations on battleship size. TS Leda was operated by Bergen Line between Britain and Norway as a North Sea ferry for over 20 years from 1953. people who designed and built them. People By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy [1][23], In 2016, Jaap Kroese died but the company said it would continue with its business of ship design. information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the 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. The former pair were in the three-quarters aft position. 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. Leda began her twice-weekly run to Stavanger and Bergen from the Tyne in April 1953. 134 Allocated to refit work Its bids for RFA Largs Bay and RFA Lyme Bay proved disastrous for the company, the MoD and the RFA, due to cost overruns and schedule delays. Anson and there was a pub on the High Street named after her. Other vessels included 30 destroyers and destroyer escorts including 16 of the Hunt class. 1959/60 The cruiser Lion was completed, having lain incomplete since the War. 1904 Hopemount Shipping Co was set up on 21st June with a subscribed capital of 12,000 with the objective of trading speculation ships built by the yard. [7] The yard subsequently undertook several ad-hoc ship repair and conversion projects for private-sector customers. 1911 Launch of Cunard liner SS Laconia [2]. Vindex survived the war and was reconditioned by the yard between August 1948 and June 1949 when she was renamed Port Vindex. In 2002, whilst being broken up, she was boarded by Greenpeace campaigners protesting about conditions in the shipbreaking industry. Families worked at the shipyard - fathers, sons, cousins, and friends became brothers. All three were on the north side of River Tyne. 129 1993 Fort George D / H / P Wallsend 14 1970 Dart America D / H / P Walker 1931 The last ship to be built at the yard was Flathouse in 1931. She was named after the Heythrop Hunt. 1929 The twin-funnelled Frenchliner Campana was completed in 1929 for Soc. The ships were built in the design of Alexander Handyside & Co, Glasgow. 1 1969 Atlantic Causeway D / H / P Walker 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. 1949 John W. Elliott elected Chairman of the Company. Shipbuilders Ships River Views About Copyright Above: Select the required shipbuilder by using initial letter of the surname eg: Armstrong, Palmer or Readhead. 123 1988 Sheffield D / H / P Neptune She was a 5,000 dwt and a conventional three-island tramp with five holds of which No. Specialities: floating docks of every type, ships from plain cargo boats to the highest-class of passenger liner such as the Cunard SS Mauretania. HMS Heythrop (L85) was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy She was ordered as part of the 1939 War Emergency programme. 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]. 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. The basic design of the lifting systems was completed by the end of 2008, and detail design of the hulls by May 2010. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8. The ship was well-loved by passengers and won both Eastbound and Westbound . manufacturing in Britain. 104 1979 Crown Prince D / H / P Walker 88 1978 Begonia D / H / P Walker Note: This is a sub-section of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Contents 1 Ships Built 1903-1919 Further vessels were made for T&J Harrison (for their West-Indies to London route) and Greece and Australia. He led the group through the 1960s and 1970s and died in retirement in 1981 at the age of 71 years. 4 1970 Esso Hibernia D / H / P Wallsend 7. 16. [11], The Company was privatised again in 1987 but decided to close its Neptune Yard in 1988. 32 1970 Nigaristan D / H / P South Shields 76-77 260,000 Tanker - Cancelled These two ships were super cargo-liners and had much of their cargo spaces refrigerated and they could carry 11,034 tons of cargo. The Times (Times Newspapers). 57 1976 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill The more inventive used the protective metal ends off the pipes as chip pans. 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 . 8 1970 Blue Rover D / H / P Hebburn 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. 3 hold was the cross-bunker hold between bridge and engineer accommodation. The yard completed pontoons and docks of all sizes to customers around the world. Work began picking up from late 1935 with three cargo-liners completed for three different companies leading to further orders. 52 1973 Forthbank D / H / P Hebburn Sloops: A History of the 71 Sloops Built in Britain and Australia for the British, Australian and Indian Navies 1926-1946. This web publication contains 151,660 pages of But if you have any others please dont hesitate to let us know in the comments. 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. [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. 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. The workshop is very easily handled, and steered remarkably well in the river. 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. 11 1970 Emiliano Zapata D / H / P Hebburn 14. Ports of call were Tenerife, Cape Town, Durban, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington. 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 In 2000 Swan Hunter was awarded the contract to design and build two Royal Navy Auxiliaries, called Landing Ship Docks, for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary with two other ships being built by BAE Systems Naval Ships. You may search for a ship by entering the first letter of the name. General Transportes Maritimes (SGTM) as a replacement for their Campana built at the Neptune Yard in 1929. WW2 Just before the outbreak of war, extensive orders were in hand, and some 55 ships were completed for private owners up to early 1946 under Government licence. This page was last edited on 5 February 2021, at 12:29. List of Shipbuilders & Ships Built List of Shipbuilders & Ships Built : Aalborg Vaerft A/S, Aalborg, Denmark : Makati : A.G. Weser, Bremen, Germany . 83 1976 Gandara D / H / P Hebburn 3 1970 Esso Northumbria D / H / P Wallsend British India Line and Clan Line were also good customers, commissioning 11 cargo-liners including, Dwarka (4851/47). Now with no p. Four small cargo ships of 2000 grt were completed leaving only the Stephenson Clarke collier Sir Russell 1548/33 and a cargo-liner for Commonwealth and Dominion Line on the order book. 80 1978 Trinculo D / H / P Hebburn Dock ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------, Shipbuilder: Swan Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders Ltd (1969-1983), Shipbuilder: Swan Hunter Ltd (1983 - 1994), KEY BELOW: D - Dimensions; H - History; P - Photographs. 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 trials of the floating workshop which has been constructed by Swan, Hunter, and Wigham-Richardson, Limited, to the order of the Natal Government, took place in the presence of the consulting engineer for the Natal Government. 125 1987 Sir Galahad D / H / P Wallsend Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. She was the largest Neptune ship when launched in September 1960 for Cia Nacional of Lisbon. Destroyers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. Oil cans with a piece of wood on top were used as seats on tea and lunch breaks. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, L. A. Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry: A Guide to Historical Records (1992). WW2 Just before the outbreak of war, extensive orders were in hand, and some 55 ships were completed for private owners up to early 1946 under Government licence. 594 1977 Singularity D / H / P South Shields 16 1969 Amra D / H / P South Shields 71 1976 Apsheron D / H / P Hebburn 1946. 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.' 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. The trio of vessels made for Bowring ( Regent Lion, Regent Panther and Regent Tiger) could carry 14540 tons of petrol. 1904-07 Six cargo-liners completed for Hansa Company of Germany and further cargo liners for the Indo-China Steamship Company Ltd. 1906 RMS Mauretania was launched from Wallsend on Tyne on 20 September 1906 to the cheers of huge crowds. The launch of HMS York from Swan Hunters, Wallsend, in 1982. 1934 Took an interest in Airspeed in August 1934. 102 1982 Illustrious D / H / P Wallsend [1], 1903 The directors at the company formation were:[2]. manufacturing in Britain. 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 . 121 1985 Atlantic Conveyor D / H / P Wallsend information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the The following 13 files are in this category, out of 13 total. 6. 15. Hunter Dunn,Furnishd and burnishd by Aldershot sun,What strenuous singles we played after tea,We in the tournamentyou against me!Sir John Betjeman (19061984). C.S. 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. They were also tramp owners at this time. 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. long, 76ft. 117 1983 Thorseggen D / H / P Wallsend 1957 E. John Hunter, grandson of the founder, was appointed Chairman in May 1957. Swan Hunter put Wallsend on the map and those who were employed at the yard formed life long friendships. WW1 Twenty five large tankers were also completed by the yard before the outbreak of World War 1. 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. She was captured in battle on 31 October 1956 by the Israeli Navy and re-commissioned as INS Haifa (K-38). 1920 The yard was fully occupied completing B types. The ship is best remembered for allegedly crossing the intersection of the International Date Line and the Equator precisely at the turn of the year from 1899 to 1900. [4]. That company was an early manufacturer of Parsons turbine engines, which enabled the Mauretania to achieve its great speed. 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. Work on the Mauretania began as early as 1901, when Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson submitted plans for two ships. The Wallsend Shipyard was the first in the world to construct tankers of over 250,000 tons on a slipway. These were: Umtata (8141 grt) for Bullard, King; Explorer (6295 grt) for T&J Harrison; and Port Townsville (8661 grt) for Port Line. 55 1975 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 1085 1974 Copenhagen D / H / P Neptune Naval Yard at Walker, Neptune Yard at Walker and Wallsend Shipyard) and two on. 33 1972 Rangatira D / H / P Walker This was the tenth ship completed for SGTM and reached speeds of 19 knots in early 1951. 70 1975 Groznyy D / H / P Neptune 66 1976 Kyra Lynn D / H / P Hebburn Dock & Walker 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 . Port Line also took delivery of four refrigerated cargo-liners for their Australian meat trade and Shaw, Savill & Albion took delivery of three cargo-liners for their New Zealand trade. 1943-46: 18 cargo liners were produced for Ellerman Lines including Ellerman Wilson Line and Port Line. 81 157,000 OBO - Cancelled Her twin Doxford-type oil engines constructed by the yard gave her a speed of 18 knots. 1932 The depression years saw the yards completing existing orders for Norwegian tanker owners as well as three destroyers Codrington, Brilliant and Bulldog and three sloops Folkestone, Scarborough and Hindustan for the Admiralty. 1909 a new design of train and passenger ferry completed for the Swedish Government. 1910/11 Hopemount made their greatest trading profit of 8,711. Other vessels included 30 destroyers and destroyer escorts including 16 of the Hunt class. Alas for the Hunter Race! Aircraft carriers, passenger liners, cargo liners, ferries, ice breakers, destroyers, frigates and submarines and other vessels were constructed by Swans' skilled workforce. 44 1972 Zaida D / H / P South Shields Mum of Cramlington woman falls ill while supporting her daughter through major surgery in Spain, Melanie Hartshorn's mum Molly has been diagnosed with heart failure, Resident fumes at neighbour who 'keeps reserving street parking with cones'. 114 1982 Osco Ingram Osprey D / H / P Neptune 73 1977 Gudermes D / H / P Hebburn More: 103 1977 Apapa pontoons Wallsend All three were powered by six steam turbines driving twin screws. 17. 1960. 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. 63 1976 Opportunity D / H / P Wallsend Both ships were fitted with powerful oil engines by Wallsend Slipway Co. 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. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and Workers cut 10 inch keys from sheets of brass for 21st birthdays back home and they were smuggled past the gateman on the way out. In 1945 the ship caught fire in the harbour of Ketchikan, Alaska. manufacturing in Britain. He became a Director of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson in 1945. 138 Allocated to refit work At the end of hostilities the combined yards covered 80 acres with a river frontage of 4000 feet and seventeen building berths of up to 1000 feet and three dry-docks. The entire plant machinery and equipment from Swan Hunter was dismantled and transported to India over six months to be rebuilt at Bharati Shipyards. . 116 1982 Pacific Teal D / H / P Hebburn Dock These latter two ships were powered by twin 6-cylinder 2SCSA Sulzer oil engines by Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co. 107 1980 Dunedin D / H / P Walker "History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd", Fears for Tyneside tradition as Swan Hunter ship is towed to Govan for completion, Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2004-05: Sixth Report of session 2005-06, Ten years ago Port Clarence was an empty shell - now it's a hive of activity, "Pioneering Spirit Heavy Lift Construction Vessel, Switzerland", People blame the MoD for Swan Hunter's decline, not me, "Swan Hunter owner Jaap Kroese has died in his native Holland, aged 76", "Swan Hunter to return to Tyneside under the son of former owner", "Swan Hunter issue Letter of Intent to Motive Offshore Group for Basket Carousel Loading Tower", "Swan Hunter Grows Installation Equipment Pool with 15Te Tensioner and 450Te Reel Drive System", "Swan Hunter announce the completion of new 450Te Reel Drive System", "Swan Hunter Mobilisation of Flexlay Spread onto Lewek Constellation", Iconic images of tankers being built at Swan Hunter 1970s, Oral histories from ex-Swan Hunter shipyard workers and images of the site, collected by Tyne & Wear Museums & Archives Service, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swan_Hunter&oldid=1119136642, Manufacturing companies established in 1880, Former defence companies of the United Kingdom, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with dead external links from December 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 30 October 2022, at 22:40. that's Touchstone's forest jest, that's swan of Avon logic. H.R.H Princess Anne launched two ships,Esso Northumbria and World Unicorn. She was completed with four six inch guns as main armament. 1091 1979 Cardiff D / H / P Hebburn 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. 41-43 Container ships - Cancelled She could also carry 8600 tons of cargo and was sold for cruising in 1976. For those who were employed there, best pals grew and memories formed. Other directors included his son George Ernest Hunter, Charles Sheriton Swan and his son. 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. Another notable vessel was Sirdhana (8608/47) which had room for 83 passengers in cabins. (2000). 25-27 1971 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill A powerful cantilever crane having span of 40 feet and capable of lifting 15 tons is placed the forward end of the vessel. Policy. There were eight 250,000 dwt tankers built, the first Esso Northumbria , the last Tyne Pride, 20. 31 1974 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 23. Maintained by Sapere Software. The only battleship built at Wallend was HMS. 4 hatch and no.5 hatch was in the aft well deck. Built at Swan Hunter in the United Kingdom and launched in 1977, she was delivered to Iran in 1984. 119 Not allocated 26. Swan Hunter amalgamated with Wigham Richardson in 1903 so that they could tender for the Mauretania. 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 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. 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. Palm, Line and Ellerman Lines were the major customers of the yards during this period, they commissioned 22 cargo-liners in total including Ilorin Palm (5442/60) which launched 17 weeks ahead of schedule in 1960. and that's madness, Lear's song. 306 second class,1800 third class passengers who had cabins and public rooms comparable with first class on other liners. 1913 Reina Victoria-Eugenia, a magnificent Spanish liner of 9726 grt was completed for Cia Transatlantica. Something went wrong, please try again later. 1956 Norwegian America Line took delivery of their new Transatlantic liner Bergensfjord in May 1956, having been launched by Princess Astrid of Norway in July 1955. 5 1971 Texaco Great Britain D / H / P Wallsend The Mocambique had been launched in 1st December 1948 and had accommodation for 93 first class, 141 second class and 102 third-class passengers. [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. The ship featured an all-welded aluminium superstructure for lightness and was one of the first liners to make use of this metal. text of this web site is available under the Creative 498 feet in length with room for 200 first class, 46 alternate first and second, 100 second class, 80 third class and 1642 emigrants. James Elroy Flecker (1884-1919) " Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. [16] By July 2006, the costs had risen to 309 million and only one ship had been delivered. 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 . But in 2006 Swan Hunter stopped building vessels on Tyneside, but continued to provide design engineering services. 105 1979 Royal Prince D / H / P Walker 122 1984 Pacific Guardian D / H / P Neptune 132 1991 James Clark Ross D / H / P Wallsend He had a book published with many of his observations of life in the yards. 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. It was a major employer for decades and some of the world's most famous ships were built there. The dry docks in Govan (also owned by Barclays) were also acquired as was Barclaay's Clydeholm yard. The vessel could also carry 9243 tons of cargo. 18. 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 Sugar soap was used to wash dirty hands. 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. 100 Not allocated 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 name of the pub that sat between Wallsend yard and the Dry Docks was the "Ship in the hole". 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. RM B97CAX - Swan Hunter Shipyards RM 2BKPNNM - Swan Hunter shipyard cranes on left; now closed, Other riverside derelict shipyards beyone towards Walker, Wallsend; Tyneside UK 2006 RM B2121N - Cranes in Swan Hunter's shipyard, Wallsend, Tyneside. At the age of 71 years of cargo to refit work people who designed built! 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