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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. 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The ship was well-loved by passengers and won both Eastbound and Westbound . It was a major employer for decades and some of the worlds most famous ships were built there. WW1 Twenty five large tankers were also completed by the yard before the outbreak of World War 1. [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]. John Robert Harbottle with pals at Swan Hunter shipyard, Lib - The rush home as workers finish their shift at Swan Hunter Shipyard in Wallsend 29 November 1977, The Queen Mother meets well-wishers at Swan Hunter shipyard in Wallsend, June 2, 1981, Esso Northumbria under construction at Swan Hunter, Wallsend, as seen from Leslie Street. 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) Illustrious & Ark Royal. 1939. 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. 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. 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. 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 . She was completed with four six inch guns as main armament. Something went wrong, please try again later. information and 236,926 images on early companies, their products and the 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. This category has the following 145 subcategories, out of 145 total. Yd No Year Ship Name D / H / P Yard See also: Category:Ships built by Swan Hunter Naval vessels Centaur -class aircraft carriers HMS Albion Invincible -class aircraft carriers HMS Ark Royal HMS Illustrious Colossus -class aircraft carriers HMS Vengeance King George V -class battleship HMS Anson (1942) 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. Larsen. 1933 There were very few completions during this year. 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 1930 When the Depression started the yard had completed fifty ships. Another notable vessel was Sirdhana (8608/47) which had room for 83 passengers in cabins. 7 1970 Grey Rover D / H / P Hebburn The last ship built at Walker shipyard was the container ship Dunedin. 138 Allocated to refit work HMS Hunter was a H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. 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. 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. 17 1970 Aska D / H / P South Shields [12] It was then forced to call in the receivers when the UK government awarded the contract for HMSOcean to Kvaerner Govan in 1993. WW1 55 warships with a total displacement of 100,000 tons were built including the cruisers Comus (1914), Coventry (1918), 28 torpedo boat destroyers, the monitor Roberts (1915) and 20 sloops and some submarines. In addition the Admiralty building programme of orders for two destroyers and an Australian cruiser also kept the yards busy during 1935 too. 37 1971 Sheaf Field D / H / P South Shields 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. 340 1978 Aldrington 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. Policy. Payday was always Friday and workers queued up to get their wage packets. All were steamers, mostly cargo carriers, and a few sailing ships. Sloops: A History of the 71 Sloops Built in Britain and Australia for the British, Australian and Indian Navies 1926-1946. 109 1985 Ark Royal D / H / P Wallsend . 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. Swan Hunter put Wallsend on the map and those who were employed at the yard formed life long friendships. 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. 46 1972 Joseph R Smallwood D / H / P Hebburn 135 1994 Westminster D / H / P Wallsend 1949 Compania Nacional de Navegacao, Lisbon took delivery of the twin-screw passenger and cargo liner Mocambique of 12976 grt for their service between Portugal and Angola and Mozambique. These were: Umtata (8141 grt) for Bullard, King; Explorer (6295 grt) for T&J Harrison; and Port Townsville (8661 grt) for Port Line. 132 1991 James Clark Ross D / H / P Wallsend Swan Hunter started to offer specialist equipment, design, engineering & project management services to the offshore renewables and subsea oil & gas energy markets. 38 1972 Chemical Venturer D / H / P Hebburn [5], 1914 Shipbuilders and repairers, engine manufacturers and floating docks. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. people who designed and built them. Work on the Mauretania began as early as 1901, when Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson submitted plans for two ships. 101 1980 Exeter D / H / P Neptune The dock had been built earlier for John Shearer and Sons. [16] A powerful cantilever crane having span of 40 feet and capable of lifting 15 tons is placed the forward end of the vessel. Shipbuilders Ships River Views About Copyright Above: Select the required shipbuilder by using initial letter of the surname eg: Armstrong, Palmer or Readhead. It was powered by two sets of steam turbines by Wallsend Slipway Co to give a speed of 22 knots. 56 1974 Alnwick Castle D / H / P Walker In late 1942 workers from Joseph L. Thompson began working on the site and the yard rejuvenated itself again. Scindia Line of India, Black Star Line of Ghana, Nigeria National Line, Indo China Steam Navigation Co. and Union Castle Mail Co also took delivery of cargo-liners. people who designed and built them. 83 1976 Gandara D / H / P Hebburn Albion in 1950s' and H.M.S. Leda began her twice-weekly run to Stavanger and Bergen from the Tyne in April 1953. Ship built 1952 for Norway - England route. 1913 Reina Victoria-Eugenia, a magnificent Spanish liner of 9726 grt was completed for Cia Transatlantica. Grace's Guide web site design is Copyright 2021 by Grace's Guide Ltd. 51 1973 Moraybank D / H / P South Shields 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. This equates to one third of output. 104 1979 Crown Prince D / H / P Walker long, 76ft. She carried 730 tourist class, 125 first-class passengers. 18 1970 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill (2000). 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. 85-86 157,000 OBO - Cancelled 15 1971 Dart Atlantic D / H / P Walker 87 112,000 Tanker - Cancelled 115 1981 Mediterranean Shearwater D / H / P Hebburn Dock 24 1971 Mulbera D / H / P Neptune Photo by Trevor Ermel. Her service speed to New York was 17 knots and she also had some refrigerated cargo capacity. 55 1975 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill At its peak, the company represented the combined forces of three powerful shipbuilding families: Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson. A total of 17 tankers were completed by the yard during the war and up to early 1946. The unusual prefix "QSMV" stood for quadruple-screw motor vessel. 1085 1974 Copenhagen D / H / P Neptune During this period, merchant construction totalled 290,599 grt including a number of different ships, vessels and floating docks. The Kharg entered the . 63 1976 Opportunity D / H / P Wallsend ". 1943 The yard was known as the National Shipbuilding Corporation (Wear) yard and began launching its own ships from December 1943. Port Sydney (9847/43) was completed as the escort carrier Vindex in December 1943 with a flight deck of 495 length and complement of 18 aeroplanes. Bergen Lines main competitors Swedish Lloyd previously took delivery of Patricia 6644/51 form the Neptune Yard for their Gothenburg to London service. [9] In 1973 further expansion came with the purchase of Palmers Dock at Hebburn from Vickers-Armstrongs. 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. Her twin stork engines gave her a speed of 20 knots but could also cruise in Winter and later became a single class liner. 9. 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. 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. She left service in 1935. 74-75 LNG Tanker - Cancelled Families worked at the shipyard - fathers, sons, cousins, and friends became brothers. 1912 Largest floating dock ever completed for the Admiralty. The list of ship launches in 1941 includes a chronological list of ships launched in 1941. 1953. 105 1979 Royal Prince D / H / P Walker Photos Duce, Richard (1993-05-12). At various times Swan Hunter also owned Palmers Hebburn Yard, Hawthorn Leslie Hebburn Yard and Readheads at South Shields which were all on the south side of the River Tyne. 116 1982 Pacific Teal D / H / P Hebburn Dock In 2002, whilst being broken up, she was boarded by Greenpeace campaigners protesting about conditions in the shipbreaking industry. Two French cargo-liners were also manufactured and a variety of vessels were made for France, Holland, Indo-China. 122 1984 Pacific Guardian D / H / P Neptune 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. 33 1972 Rangatira D / H / P Walker Kendal, England: World Ship Society. The Wallsend Shipyard was the first in the world to construct tankers of over 250,000 tons on a slipway. 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. 1911 to 1913 Two liners completed for Cunard plus three others. It was bought by the National Shipbuilders Security and was due to be dismantled. 5. 30 Not allocated S.S. Peter G. Campbell. [25] On 12 October 2016, the company announced the issue of a letter of intent for the design and build of a basket carousel loading tower. For those who were employed there, best pals grew and memories formed. and 26in.. with a stroke of 15in. 1913-1914 Eight cargo liners with accommodation completed for the British India Steam navigation Company. He led the group through the 1960s and 1970s and died in retirement in . She has been the only British Warship so far to bear this name. 125 1987 Sir Galahad D / H / P Wallsend She was fitted with reciprocating engines and exhaust turbines on separate shafts. 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. that's Touchstone's forest jest, that's swan of Avon logic. [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. Other orders were completed for the Belgian Government, Polish Ocean Lines and the Turkish Government among others. 31 1974 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill Atlantic Conveyor was a British merchant navy ship, registered in Liverpool, that was requisitioned during the Falklands War. The name of the pub that sat between Wallsend yard and the Dry Docks was the "Ship in the hole". These latter two ships were powered by twin 6-cylinder 2SCSA Sulzer oil engines by Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co. The launch of HMS York from Swan Hunters, Wallsend, in 1982. 47 1973 Frank D Moores D / H / P Hebburn The aircraft carrier was launched nine days later. [26] The company announced further equipment pool growth through a 15Te tensioner and 450Te reel drive system. 3. Dominion Monarch carried 517 first class passengers as a one class ship and a full load of 16,400 tons of cargo was loaded at London with passengers embarking at Southampton. It could carry 119 first-class and 384 tourist-class passengers. 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. 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 public rooms featured tapestries, paintings, mosaics and glass-panelled walls. The yard was now the world leader in floating gravity docks, it had a 33,000 ton lift for use at Portsmouth Dockyard. 1920 the yard was fully occupied completing B types. Port Chalmers of 8535 grt in December 1933 and six small orders. She was a 5,000 dwt and a conventional three-island tramp with five holds of which No. From the mid 30s the renewed demand for oil reinvigorated the tanker building programme with 20 tankers built between 1935 and 1939. 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. HMS Artifex. Satellite and aerial maps of Swan Hunter (Neptune) with nearby locations: Toggle Map | Km: Bearing: 0.6: 021: Swan Hunter (Wallsend), England: 0.6: 065: Hawthorn Leslie . 17. Two other high class passenger ferries were completed for Swedish Lloyd (Britannia and Suecia both of 4631 grt). WWI The yard's key output was for the War effort. It was like the Grand National when the dinner time buzzer went off as everyone raced to the canteen. we . 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Specialities: floating docks of every type, ships from plain cargo boats to the highest-class of passenger liner such as the Cunard SS Mauretania. 103 1977 Apapa pontoons Wallsend Oil cans with a piece of wood on top were used as seats on tea and lunch breaks. The Bank Line's cargo ship "Clydebank" ran aground off the Farne Islands when on trials. 10. 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. Notable liners included: Port Napier (9847/40) was requisitioned by the Admiralty and completed as a minelayer to carry 500 mines for barrage work. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. A young lad is lifted on to the wall by his granddad to get a better view of HMS 'Ark Royal' nearing completion at the Swan Hunter shipyard in Wallsend on 24th May 1981. 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. 1337 1978 Starman Anglia D / H / P Neptune She saw service in the Second World War and later as an Egyptian Navy ship in the Suez Crisis. History 114 1982 Osco Ingram Osprey D / H / P Neptune 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. The weight of this cable and repeaters was so great that Monarch had to make three loadings on her drums to complete the task. Workers earned their nicknames from the jobs they did - Geordie the Beltman, Jackie the Welder, etc. "El Lobo". She was later converted into a commando carrier. Hague, Arnold (1993). [7] The yard subsequently undertook several ad-hoc ship repair and conversion projects for private-sector customers. This web publication contains 151,660 pages of Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961) " I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep ". There were eight 250,000 dwt tankers built, the first Esso Northumbria , the last Tyne Pride, 20. Anson and there was a pub on the High Street named after her. 62 1979 Glasgow D / H / P Neptune Employees 6,000 to 7,000. 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. 16. 66 1976 Kyra Lynn D / H / P Hebburn Dock & Walker 7. The company also owned the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, the yard that built the engines for the Mauretania, from 1903 until the 1980s. 3 hold was the cross-bunker hold between bridge and engineer accommodation. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. 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]. KEY BELOW: D - Dimensions; H - History; P - Photographs 1941 In June King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited the Neptune yard and other Tyneside yards in an attempt to boost morale. 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. But in 2006 Swan Hunter stopped building vessels on Tyneside, but continued to provide design engineering services. 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.' SS Warrimoo was an Australian/New Zealand passenger ship, launched in 1892. There was also a veranda cafe, music room, smoking room and de-luxe suites. 1912 The Elderslie Dockyard at Scotstoun on the Clyde (owned by Barclays) was taken over in May, with a 500 foot dry dock. 1957 E. John Hunter, grandson of the founder, was appointed Chairman in May 1957. 498 feet in length with room for 200 first class, 46 alternate first and second, 100 second class, 80 third class and 1642 emigrants. 4in. London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8. 2. [24], Also in 2016, Swan Hunter was relaunched into the subsea industry by Gerard Kroese, the eldest son of former owner Jaap Kroese. 1947. General Transportes Maritimes (SGTM) as a replacement for their Campana built at the Neptune Yard in 1929. Even a minute late meant you were docked quarter of an hour pay. Other directors included his son George Ernest Hunter, Charles Sheriton Swan and his son. Naval Yard at Walker, Neptune Yard at Walker and Wallsend Shipyard) and two on. Vindex survived the war and was reconditioned by the yard between August 1948 and June 1949 when she was renamed Port Vindex. The vessel could also carry 9243 tons of cargo. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and 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. 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 [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. H.M.S. She was the largest Neptune ship when launched in September 1960 for Cia Nacional of Lisbon. [14] However, the main shipyard in Wallsend was bought out from receivership by Jaap Kroese, a Dutch millionaire. ISBN -905617-67-3. Sugar soap was used to wash dirty hands. 12 1970 Faraday D / H / P Hebburn The last ship built at Wallsend was the Shields ferry "Pride of the Tyne". 139 Not allocated 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. 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 She sailed on her maiden voyage on 30th March 1951 from Marseilles to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires via Barcelona and Lisbon. More: He led the group through the 1960s and 1970s and died in retirement in 1981 at the age of 71 years. 58 1975 Windsor Lion D / H / P Wallsend As result of this, the second ship RFALyme Bay was transferred to BAE Systems Govan in Glasgow for completion. She was launched in 1940 and served during the Second World War. C.S. 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. people who designed and built them. 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