Richardson, Duck & Company
Richardson, Duck & Company was from 1855 to 1925 a shipyard based in Thornaby on the River Tees in the English region of North East England .
history
The South Stockton Iron Ship Building Company was founded in 1852 on the premises of the machine manufacturer Fossick. Three years after the Advance , the first iron steamship on the River Tees, was built there, the yard was taken over by Joseph Richardson and George Nixon Duck and renamed Richardson and Duck . In the first ten years the company built 50 iron steamships , 10 sailing ships and 29 barges . In 1859 the paddle steamer Tasmanian Maid was launched , which was converted into the gunboat HMS Sandfly in 1863 .
In 1859, Richardson, Duck & Co. took over the Rake Kimber shipyard in Middlesbrough , where they designed and built eleven ships before selling the shipyard to Backhouse and Dixon in 1862 .
In 1870, Richardson, Duck & Co. u. a. the steamship Burgos (hull number 160), which was equipped with a 3-fold expansion steam engine from Blair & Co in 1884 .
In the 1900s, the shipyard began building steel ships . During this decade, the shipyard built 500 trampers , merchant ships and barges . Richardson, Duck & Co. became a license holder for the Isherwood System , a patent for the longitudinal frame system in ship hulls.
The ships built by Richardson, Duck & Co. in 1911 included the cargo steamer Budapest (hull number 616), which was later renamed Kerwood and handed over to the US Navy as USS Kerwood in 1918 . In 1912 the shipyard built a total of twelve ships and formed a limited liability company (Ltd.) .
During the First World War , the Arabis class HMS Rosemary (hull number 661) and the Aubretia class HMS Tulip (hull number 666) were built. Richardson, Duck & Co. built war ships of the type "A" and "AO" at the time of the war , including the Farnworth ( hull number 651), the Plawsworth ( hull number 652), the Kenilworth ( hull number 662), the War Vulture ( Construction number 671), the War Strauss (construction number 672), the War Anglian (construction number 673) and the Clearton (construction number 677).
In 1919, Richardson, Duck & Co. became a public company , a year later James and Walter Gould acquired a controlling interest in the yard. In 1922 labor disputes and a lack of orders made the shipyard's situation difficult. The last ship from Richardson, Duck & Co. was the steamer Southborough (hull number 689), which was launched in 1924. In May 1925 the Gould Group went into liquidation, in 1933 the shipyard was demolished.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Richardson, Duck and Co Shipyard Description (English), accessed July 22, 2011
- ↑ a b Richardson, Duck & Company Limited , overview of the ships built from 1852 to 1924 (English), accessed on July 22, 2011