1921-23 The yard closed in 1921 until 1923 and then focussed on building Great Lakes Steamers. This also coincided with the abandonment of Treaty limitations on battleship size. The following are the principal particulars of this floating factory:The overall length is 129ft. 107 1980 Dunedin D / H / P Walker [5], In 1966, Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson merged with Smiths Dock Company to form Associated Shipbuilders, which later became Swan Hunter Group. The dry docks in Govan (also owned by Barclays) were also acquired as was Barclaay's Clydeholm yard. 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 ship is notable for seeing service in the navies of three other nations after her use by the Royal Navy. Sign up for free to get the latest North East news and updates delivered straight to your inbox. The last ship built at Walker shipyard was the container ship Dunedin. S.S. Peter G. Campbell. [6]. 132 1991 James Clark Ross D / H / P Wallsend information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the 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. 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. 61 1978 Newcastle D / H / P Neptune Swan Hunter started to offer specialist equipment, design, engineering & project management services to the offshore renewables and subsea oil & gas energy markets. For those who were employed there, best pals grew and memories formed. ". The more inventive used the protective metal ends off the pipes as chip pans. The ship was well-loved by passengers and won both Eastbound and Westbound . 79 1978 Lagoven Quiriquire D / H / P Hebburn She carried 730 tourist class, 125 first-class passengers. 55 1975 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 1933 There were very few completions during this year. 1931 The last ship to be built at the yard was Flathouse in 1931. Atlantic Conveyor was a British merchant navy ship, registered in Liverpool, that was requisitioned during the Falklands War. She was under repair for the next year and a half, after which she rejoined the Mediterranean Fleet.During the first few months of the Second World War . 59 1974 Gold Rover D / H / P Neptune James Elroy Flecker (1884-1919) " Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. 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 . 105 1979 Royal Prince D / H / P Walker 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. Two other high class passenger ferries were completed for Swedish Lloyd (Britannia and Suecia both of 4631 grt). Once a world leader. 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. These two ships were super cargo-liners and had much of their cargo spaces refrigerated and they could carry 11,034 tons of cargo. Kendal, England: World Ship Society. 594 1977 Singularity D / H / P South Shields 84 260,000 Tanker - Cancelled 34 1972 Lincolnshire D / H / P Hebburn 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. Including two banana boats completed for Elders & Fyffes. 129 1993 Fort George D / H / P Wallsend Robert Hunter (his younger brother) was appointed manager of the Wallsend Dry Docks Department in succession to his elder brother in 1957. From the mid 30s the renewed demand for oil reinvigorated the tanker building programme with 20 tankers built between 1935 and 1939. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of She left service in 1935. Work on the Mauretania began as early as 1901, when Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson submitted plans for two ships. 1929 The twin-funnelled Frenchliner Campana was completed in 1929 for Soc. 1934 There were three orders for twin-screw turbine-driven car ferries for the Southern Railway Company, which kept some of the workforce in the Neptune Yard busy. 69 1975 Maykop D / H / P Hebburn 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. 5 1971 Texaco Great Britain D / H / P Wallsend She was later converted into a commando carrier. The trio of vessels made for Bowring ( Regent Lion, Regent Panther and Regent Tiger) could carry 14540 tons of petrol. 36 1972 Chemical Explorer D / H / P Hebburn 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. Every Friday bars of Castle Soap were handed out to workers to take home. 124 1988 Coventry D / H / P Wallsend Other customers included New Zealand Companies, Federal Steam navigation (Northumberland 12160/15) and Union Steamship Company of New Zealand (Armagh 12159/17). All were steamers, mostly cargo carriers, and a few sailing ships. 44 1972 Zaida D / H / P South Shields 65 1975 Yorkshire D / H / P Hebburn Dock & Walker Albion in 1950s' and H.M.S. Cunard Line took delivery of a cargo-liner for Transatlantic services. QSMV Dominion Monarch was a UK passenger and refrigerated cargo liner. She was a 5,000 dwt and a conventional three-island tramp with five holds of which No. [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. Royal Fleet Auxiliary Landing ship vessel the Largs Bay is the last ship to be built at Swan Hunters on the river Tyne UK. 60 tankers were completed out of 180 ships built by the Company over this period. He became a Director of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson in 1945. It was launched in 1969, Children playing in the shadow of the giant oil tanker Esso Northumbria being built by Swan Hunter at the end of Leslie Street, Wallsend, in April 1969, The giant cranes at Wallsend at work at Swan Hunter yard in December 1978. The speed obtained on the measured mile trials was a mean of 7.12 knots, this speed being considerably in excess of what had been guaranteed by the builders. Port Chalmers of 8535 grt in December 1933 and six small orders. Her twin stork engines gave her a speed of 20 knots but could also cruise in Winter and later became a single class liner. 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. TSS Dover, (later the Earl Siward, Sol Express and now the Tuxedo Royale), is a British retired ferry. Illustrious & Ark Royal. She was of 10816 grt and 528 feet length and turbine-powered to twin propellers. This page was last edited on 23 April 2019, at 09:41. 1934 See Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson: 1934 Review, 1936 Subsidiary Tyne Plywood Works formed to manufacture gaboon plywood. Sugar soap was used to wash dirty hands. Tanker "Helicina". List of Shipbuilders & Ships Built List of Shipbuilders & Ships Built : Aalborg Vaerft A/S, Aalborg, Denmark : Makati : A.G. Weser, Bremen, Germany . [1], 1903 The directors at the company formation were:[2]. Swan & Hunter was founded by George Burton Hunter, who formed a partnership with the widow of Charles Sheridan Swan (the owner of a Wallsend Shipbuilding business established in 1852 by Charles Mitchell)[2] under the name in 1880. 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. 1939. 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. He had a book published with many of his observations of life in the yards. She could also carry 8600 tons of cargo and was sold for cruising in 1976. [16] By July 2006, the costs had risen to 309 million and only one ship had been delivered. 1957 E. John Hunter, grandson of the founder, was appointed Chairman in May 1957. 37 1971 Sheaf Field D / H / P South Shields Both engine-building works went onto produce many sets of diesel and oil engines. George Burton Hunter continued as chairman until 1928. 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. "Bamburgh Castle". Built at Swan Hunter in the United Kingdom and launched in 1977, she was delivered to Iran in 1984. Shipbuilders Ships River Views About Copyright Above: Select the required shipbuilder by using initial letter of the surname eg: Armstrong, Palmer or Readhead. 4 1970 Esso Hibernia D / H / P Wallsend But in 2006 Swan Hunter stopped building vessels on Tyneside, but continued to provide design engineering services. 1954 The light aircraft carrier Albion was completed, having lain incomplete since being launched at the yard in 1947. 1923 The company completed 50 Great lakes grain-carrying steamers with Glen Line ordering six of these engine-aft bridge-forward ships of 2000 grt, all with names beginning Glen for their feeder services. Something went wrong, please try again later. Swan & Hunter merged with Wigham Richardson (founded by John Wigham Richardson as Neptune Works in 1860), specifically to bid for the important contract to build RMSMauretania on behalf of Cunard. 99 1976 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 1947. 135 1994 Westminster D / H / P Wallsend Wallsend received the Mauretania, and the Lusitania went to Clydebank, 'Metal Bashing' between the wars at the Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson yard at Wallsend, The Mauretania enters the river Tyne at the Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, on September 20 1906, A packet of Woodbine cigarettes (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images), The yards, like Swan Hunter, Palmers and Redhead, employed generations of families, and brought wealth and fame to the region, Slips by the side of bulk paper carrier, Swan Hunter. Aircraft carriers, passenger liners, cargo liners, ferries, ice breakers, destroyers, frigates and submarines and other vessels were constructed by Swans' skilled workforce. 340 1978 Aldrington D / H / P Neptune [22], In 2008, the company said it was concentrating on ship design with just under 200 people employed. 30 Not allocated 85-86 157,000 OBO - Cancelled In service from 1910 until 1945, the vessel saw brief service as a hospital ship for the Royal Canadian Navy during World War I. [27] Swan Hunter announced loading tower readiness on 5 May 2017[28] with completion of mobilisation onto EMAS Chiyoda Subsea's multi-lay vessel 'Lewek Constellation' shortly thereafter.[29]. 51 1973 Moraybank D / H / P South Shields text of this web site is available under the Creative 26. The Iranian ship Kharg is a modified Ol-class replenishment oiler of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, named after Kharg Island. 16. 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. 40 1973 Remuera D / H / P Walker 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. WWI The yard's key output was for the War effort. Duce, Richard (1993-05-12). 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. 1918 Cunard liner Aurania 13936/17 with a capacity of 2022 passengers was torpedoed and destroyed on 4th February. 128 1989 Sir Eric Sharp D / H / P Wallsend 1914 Directory: Listed as Ship Builders of Southwick, Sunderland. 48 1972 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 74-75 LNG Tanker - Cancelled [5] Mauretania was launched from Wallsend on 20 September 1906 by the Duchess of Roxburghe. 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. 103 1977 Apapa pontoons Wallsend 306 second class,1800 third class passengers who had cabins and public rooms comparable with first class on other liners. HMS Farndale was a Type 2 Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy which served in World War II. 38 1972 Chemical Venturer D / H / P Hebburn RMS Mauritania was an ocean liner, built by Wigham Richardson and Swan Hunter and designed by Leonard Peskett. Grace's Guide web site design is Copyright 2021 by Grace's Guide Ltd. The 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. 3 vols by Norman L. Middlemiss, Sunderland Salvage Company of Lindsay Swan, Hunter, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson: 1934 Review, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson: Ships Built, https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/index.php?title=Swan,_Hunter_and_Wigham_Richardson&oldid=1247867, Creative 3 1970 Esso Northumbria D / H / P Wallsend 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. 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. The public rooms featured tapestries, paintings, mosaics and glass-panelled walls. 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. 3. Policy. 68 1977 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 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). Of the 73, two . KEY BELOW: D - Dimensions; H - History; P - Photographs 1912 Largest floating dock ever completed for the Admiralty. 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.' TS Leda was operated by Bergen Line between Britain and Norway as a North Sea ferry for over 20 years from 1953. The workshop is lighted throughout by electricity and with accommodation for both workmen and crew. RM 2CGP4J8 - Tanker Tyne Pride, Leslie Street, Wallsend, Swan Hunter Shipbuilders, 1975 This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. The name of the pub that sat between Wallsend yard and the Dry Docks was the "Ship in the hole". 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. The yard completed pontoons and docks of all sizes to customers around the world. 6. The last liner built in the UK was built at the Neptune yard, the Norway - America cruise liner Vistafjord in 1973. [12] It was then forced to call in the receivers when the UK government awarded the contract for HMSOcean to Kvaerner Govan in 1993. A giant oil tanker was a common sight at the end of Leslie Street in Wallsend. 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. 1. Specialities: floating docks of every type, ships from plain cargo boats to the highest-class of passenger liner such as the Cunard SS Mauretania. 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. 126 1990 Chatham D / H / P Neptune 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. 14. 110 1980 Pacific Crane D / H / P Hebburn Dock [7] The yard subsequently undertook several ad-hoc ship repair and conversion projects for private-sector customers. 1940 de Havilland bought the shares in Airspeed. Photos She was fitted with reciprocating engines and exhaust turbines on separate shafts. The launch of HMS York from Swan Hunters, Wallsend, in 1982. 32 1970 Nigaristan D / H / P South Shields Initiation jokes were hilarious - Gan and get a tin of tartan paint or gan and get us a rubber hammer and a long stand' - which left newbies standing for a while in the storeroom. He led the group through the 1960s and 1970s and died in retirement in 1981 at the age of 71 years. The weight of this cable and repeaters was so great that Monarch had to make three loadings on her drums to complete the task. 140 1993 Pride of the Tyne D / H / P Wallsend 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. 115 1981 Mediterranean Shearwater D / H / P Hebburn Dock 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). But if you have any others please dont hesitate to let us know in the comments. If you clocked in late at 7.31am the time was printed in red ink. [7] Following the publication of the Geddes Report recommending rationalisation in British shipbuilding, the Company went on to acquire Clelands Shipbuilding Company[8] and John Readhead & Sons in 1967. These included Gothic (15911/48) which had spacious accommodation for 85 first class passengers in 53 cabins of which 36 were single-berth, while 23 had their own private bathroom, The public rooms were of such a high standard thatship acted as a temporary Royal yacht for a tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1953. 139 Not allocated 1961. 136 1994 Northumberland D / H / P Wallsend Swan Hunter put Wallsend on the map and those who were employed at the yard formed life long friendships. 18. The vessel could also carry 9243 tons of cargo. 49 1973 Corabank D / H / P South Shields At the time, the company had 40 employees and contractors. 46 1972 Joseph R Smallwood D / H / P Hebburn As result of this, the second ship RFALyme Bay was transferred to BAE Systems Govan in Glasgow for completion. 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. Hague, Arnold (1993). 18 1970 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 15. 13. 7. 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. 39 1973 Vistafjord D / H / P Neptune British India Line and Clan Line were also good customers, commissioning 11 cargo-liners including, Dwarka (4851/47). This page was last edited on 28 August 2021, at 15:35. 116 1982 Pacific Teal D / H / P Hebburn Dock 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. You may search for a ship by entering the first letter of the name. In cases where no official launching ceremony was held, the date built or completed may be used instead. 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. 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. The company was registered on 15 June. 29 1972 London Lion D / H / P Wallsend General Transportes Maritimes (SGTM) as a replacement for their Campana built at the Neptune Yard in 1929. manufacturing in Britain. 101 1980 Exeter D / H / P Neptune Payday was always Friday and workers queued up to get their wage packets. It was a major employer for decades and some of the worlds most famous ships were built there. The Kharg entered the . These were single screw turbine steamers with room for 201 first class and 40 second class passengers on the London to Gothenburg service. 1930 When the Depression started the yard had completed fifty ships. The Mixte Company also ordered Djebel Diro (4180/48) 56 first class, 100tourist class, 100 tourist class and 430 third class passengers. 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Other vessels included 30 destroyers and destroyer escorts including 16 of the Hunt class. 122 1984 Pacific Guardian D / H / P Neptune This web publication contains 151,660 pages of Both ships were fitted with powerful oil engines by Wallsend Slipway Co. Along with her two sisters Blake and Tiger (completed on the Clyde), these ships were the last Royal Navy Cruisers. 17. The ship featured an all-welded aluminium superstructure for lightness and was one of the first liners to make use of this metal. 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. 45 1972 Zira D / H / P South Shields At each shipyard at least one guy had his name prefixed with Pedlar (Pedlar Joe, Pedlar Jack, etc). 47 1973 Frank D Moores D / H / P Hebburn She was completed with four six inch guns as main armament. Construct warships and many kinds of vessels for special purposes, laying submarine cables, carrying oil in bulk, fruit, frozen meat, cattle, railway trains etc. Usually, in the company of the whale factory ships Sir James Clark Ross and C.A. 17 1970 Aska D / H / P South Shields Her service speed to New York was 17 knots and she also had some refrigerated cargo capacity. Policy. 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). [10], Then in 1977, Swan Hunter Group was nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders. The dry docks was the container ship Dunedin 30 destroyers and destroyer including. Built in the UK was built at the company of the first liners to make three loadings on her to. & Fyffes Tuxedo Royale ), is a British merchant Navy ship, registered in Liverpool that. 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