Robert Craggs & Sons

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Robert Craggs & Sons Ltd. was a shipyard in Middlesbrough (North East England). The company mainly dealt with the construction of coastal ships and tugs.

history

The Middlesbrough company was founded in 1832 by Robert Craggs, who had started building ships in Stockton in 1825. In 1866, Craggs opened another shipyard in Middlesbrough. The company built wooden ships and carried out repairs. In the early years of its existence, it also traded in wood and stone. Since the 1870s at the latest, iron ships have been repaired in addition to wooden ones and in January 1875 the first new iron ships were built. By 1882 only five more iron ships were built and in July 1885 the shipyard closed in order to convert it to the upcoming steel shipbuilding . In 1896, Sir Raylton Dixon and Company took over the first shipyard from Craggs, who reopened a shipyard in Middlesbrough (later Dent's Wharf). Larger ships were built in the early 1900s, and after Sir Joseph Isherwood became director of the shipyard in 1907, the tanker Paul Paix , the first ship under the Isherwood system , was launched in August 1908 . In the course of a shipping crisis, the shipyard closed in July 1909 after the delivery of the new Conrad Mohr building . Most of the former shipyard buildings on the south bank of the Tees were later demolished, only the shipyard crane remained in place until the 1950s.

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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