Middle Docks & Engineering Company
Middle Docks & Engineering Company was a shipyard in West Holborn, South Shields (North East England).
history
In 1899 the Mail, Macfarlane & Company shipyard in West Holborn was sold by GE Henderson and re-established on February 5, 1900 under the leadership of JH Edwards. The company mainly dealt with ship repairs and was expanded and modernized under the new management. A third dry dock was opened in 1909 and a fourth in 1917 . In the period between the two world wars until 1941, the shipyard's two older dry docks were also expanded. In 1959 the company was converted into a corporation and in 1961 employed 1,100 people.
After the shipyard had delivered one of its few new ships, the Thor floating crane , to the construction company Christiani & Nielsen in 1976 with hull number 12 , it was incorporated into the state-owned British Shipbuilders Corporation on July 1, 1977 . Under the aegis of British Shipbuilders, the shipyard was incorporated into the Tyne Shiprepairers Group and concentrated on the repair business. In 1991, Tyne Dock Engineering Company (TDE), which had already taken over the neighboring shipyard John Readhead and Sons in 1984 , also took over Middle Docks and continued to run both privately. In the mid-1990s, however, this company ran into financial difficulties and was sold by owner Zenta to the shipbuilding company Cammell Laird in October 1998 . The former shipyard was still used for renovation work, but later largely demolished.
Web links
- The Middle Docks & Engineering Company at Grace's Guide (English)
- John Bage: The Middle Docks and Engineering Co. Ltd. - Introduction (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Register of Ships 1981-82 , Volume PZ, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London, 1981, p. 1289.
- ^ John Bage: The Middle Docks and Engineering Co. Ltd. - Today ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
