Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company
Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company Ltd was a shipbuilding company based in Point Pleasant, Wallsend , Tyne and Wear on the River Tyne . It was about a mile downstream from the well-known Swan Hunter shipyard and was later bought by them.
history
Early years
The public company was registered from October 2, 1871 and the following November by shipbuilder Charles Mitchell and a group of shipping companies from Newcastle-upon-Tyne who needed repair and docking operations for their ships, as The Wallsend Slipway Co. on a site two 100 meter long hangings. One of the first ships taken in for repairs was the Earl Percy in 1873 . Appointed in 1874 as Managing Director Willam Boyd initiated in 1873 to build the first ship steam engines, which developed over the next ten years the most important pillar of the yard and the addition of "engineering" used from 1878 in the company name The Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co Ltd established. In 1881 a new boiler workshop was built and in 1897 a separate dry dock was built, which made it possible to repair ships up to around 160 meters.
Swan Hunter
In 1903 Swan Hunter took over the majority of the company. The company supplied all types of boilers, steam engines and Parsons turbines for numerous war and merchant ships. In 1904 the boiler workshop is expanded to be able to manufacture the huge boilers and steam turbines for the famous RMS Mauretania . At the beginning of the First World War , the program was expanded to include motors and burners, including the Wallsend-Howden patent liquid combustion system. In 1915 the first engine was installed in the Abelia owned by the owner, Marcus Samuel. In 1961, 3,000 people worked at Wallsend Slipway.
Nationalization and reprivatisation
On July 1, 1977, the shipyard was incorporated into the state-owned British Shipbuilders Corporation and sold to AMEC when it was re-privatized in the early 1980s . As Hadrian Yard , parts of the Gateshead Millennium Bridge were manufactured there until 2001 and offshore structures, such as FPSO 's for the bonga field, were manufactured there until the end of 2003 . In January 2005 the shipyard was temporarily mothballed and in June of the same year AMEC announced that the shipyard should be sold for redevelopment. The intention to sell was reported again in April 2008 and in November 2008 the yard was finally bought by Shepherd Offshore . In March 2009, "SLP", a Surrey company , announced that it had leased the shipyard for the manufacture of offshore gas production platforms for the North Sea from Shepherd Offshore .
Web links
- Wallsend Slipway at Grace's Guide ( Memento from February 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in North East England History (English)
- ↑ Entry at Tomorrows's History (English)
- ↑ Wallsend Slipway and William Boyd News Guardian, July 16, 2008 (English)
- ↑ Entry in Swan Hunter ( Memento from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English) accessed on August 17, 2009
- ↑ AMEC completes Bonga FPSO report in Offshore Magazine, December 2003 (English)
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Amec to shut Tyne Yard The Evening Chronicle on June 30, 2005 (English)
- ↑ Historical Hadrian Yard put on market by Amec The Newcastle Journal on April 23, 2008 (English)
- ↑ Shepherd Offshore in Shipyards Deal The Northern Echo on November 3, 2008 (English)
- ^ Engineers considering second Tyneside contract The Newcastle Journal on March 21, 2009 (English)