Ropner Shipbuilding
Ropner Shipbuilding was a British shipyard based in Stockton-on-Tees in north east England that was known for its trunk deckers .
history
The company was founded in 1888 as Ropner Shipbuilding by trampoline ship owner Robert Ropner , who took over the existing Matthew Pearse & Company shipyard that year . Ropner built 18 tramp ships in the following six years . As early as 1895, the yard's production was third highest in Great Britain. An average of two ships were delivered per year, a large number of which were destined for the company's own shipping company, Ropner Shipping Company .
Although it has not been proven that Ropner invented the trunk decker type of ship , these ships, built since 1896, became the shipyard's trademark.
During the First World War , the shipyard , trading as Ropner and Sons, Iron Ship Builders of Hunter's Lane, Stockton , from 1914 built around a dozen tramp ships, some smaller vehicles and ten units of the standard war types War "A" and War "C" , which, however, later End of the war not all were finished. In 1919 the company was liquidated and renamed Ropner Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. (Stockton) Ltd. Newly founded, only to be liquidated again after the lack of new construction contracts in 1922 and to be reopened after a financial restructuring. 16 ships were built between 1920 and 1925. A total of 72 tramp ships were built at Ropners.
From 1925 the shipyard was continued as a shipyard of the Smiths Dock Company and finally closed in 1931 after the completion of the last three trampers and some smaller vehicles.
See also
Comparable, competing shipyards were z. B .:
Web links
- Shipyard description , accessed on June 18, 2009
- Maritime Lexicon ( Memento of November 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on May 2, 2009
literature
- Leonard Gray: Ropner Shipping Company. World Ship Society, Kendal 1975.
- Harold Appleyard: Ropner trunk-deck steamers, Part 1. In: Ships in Focus ( ISSN 1363-1675 ), 1st year 1996, pages 82-91.
- Harold Appleyard: Ropner trunk-deck steamers, Part 2. In: Ships in Focus , 2nd year 1997, pages 154-159.
- Harold Appleyard: Shares in the Margam Abbey. In: Ships in Focus , 2nd year 1997, page 254.
- JA Douglas: Queenswood's List. In: Ships in Focus , 2nd year 1997, pages 254–255.
- Alan McClelland: The Loss of the Millpool. In: Ships in Focus , 2nd year 1997, pages 255-257.
- o. V .: Merits of the trunk. In: Ships in Focus , 2nd year 1997, page 258.
- N / A : Doxford vs. Ropner. In: Ships in Focus , 2nd year 1997, pages 258–260.
- Rolf Schönknecht, Uwe Laue: Ocean freighters of world shipping. Volume 2, transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-344-00282-1 , S. #.
- Alfred Dudszus, Alfred Köpcke: The big book of ship types. Weltbild Verlag (licensed edition by transpress, Berlin), Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-831-7 , p. #.
photos
- Bow 3/4 and Stern 3/4 photos of the SS Trunkby from Old Ship Picture Galleries of www.photoship.co.uk ; Origin unknown; Probable location: River Avon (Bristol).