Craig, Taylor & Company

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Craig, Taylor & Company Ltd. was a shipbuilding company with shipyards in Thornaby-on-Tees , North East England . The company mainly dealt with the construction of tramp ships and necklaces .

history

The Queen's Campus on the former shipyard site

The company was founded in 1836 by Irving, Lane & Company and taken over by Craig Taylor's in 1884. The company, newly founded in 1885, was converted into a corporation in 1905.

At the beginning of the First World War, the company employed between 1200 and 1400 people. During the war years, trampers and liner ships were built for private purposes. In the years after the end of the war, the shipyard had few orders and had to completely interrupt its new construction work several times for a long period of time. In 1930 the shipyard was transferred to National Shipbuilders Security for liquidation . The shipyard was then closed, the inventory sold and the former shipyard buildings demolished in 1931. The metal construction company Head, Wrightson & Company took over the former shipyard and produced large components there until 1987. After the Head-Wrightson operational buildings were demolished, the site was rebuilt.

literature

  • Norman L. Middlemiss: British Shipbuilding Yards . Volume 1: North-East Coast. 1st edition. Shield Publications, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1993, ISBN 1-871128-10-2 .

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