list of ships built by swan hunter

39 1973 Vistafjord D / H / P Neptune Swan Hunter, formerly known as Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, is a shipbuilding design, engineering, and management company, [1] based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England . Now with no p. 26. Her twin stork engines gave her a speed of 20 knots but could also cruise in Winter and later became a single class liner. [16] By July 2006, the costs had risen to 309 million and only one ship had been delivered. You may search for a ship by entering the first letter of the name. 1934 Took an interest in Airspeed in August 1934. These included Gothic (15911/48) which had spacious accommodation for 85 first class passengers in 53 cabins of which 36 were single-berth, while 23 had their own private bathroom, The public rooms were of such a high standard thatship acted as a temporary Royal yacht for a tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1953. 9. Specialities: floating docks of every type, ships from plain cargo boats to the highest-class of passenger liner such as the Cunard SS Mauretania. Generale de transportes Maritimes with accommodation for a total of 1305 passengers. manufacturing in Britain. Port Sydney (9847/43) was completed as the escort carrier Vindex in December 1943 with a flight deck of 495 length and complement of 18 aeroplanes. At the end of hostilities the combined yards covered 80 acres with a river frontage of 4000 feet and seventeen building berths of up to 1000 feet and three dry-docks. 123 1988 Sheffield D / H / P Neptune 17. 1912 The Southwick yard was opened by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson as an overspill for its other yards, as it had excess orders for colliers, coasters and Great Lake Steamers from their main yards. On 1 May 2006, British pop-duo Pet Shop Boys performed their soundtrack to the 1925 Soviet silent-film Battleship Potemkin alongside the Royal Northern Sinfonia at the shipyard. 1912 Largest floating dock ever completed for the Admiralty. information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the 25. The public rooms featured tapestries, paintings, mosaics and glass-panelled walls. 114 1982 Osco Ingram Osprey D / H / P Neptune The company was responsible for some of the greatest ships of the early 20th century, most famously RMSMauretania which held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, and RMSCarpathia which rescued survivors from RMSTitanic. Four small cargo ships of 2000 grt were completed leaving only the Stephenson Clarke collier Sir Russell 1548/33 and a cargo-liner for Commonwealth and Dominion Line on the order book. British India Line and Clan Line were also good customers, commissioning 11 cargo-liners including, Dwarka (4851/47). He ship was turbine powered as were her sister ships. 32 1970 Nigaristan D / H / P South Shields The Yard was closed because of the Depression, as its main owners had no use for it. 37 reasons why you should marry a Geordie - and why you won't regret it, 22 things you should never say to someone from Newcastle, Remember these 12 Geordie employers that have disappeared but hold fond memories for those who worked there, 36 things about the North East which confuse even the people who live here, Remember these? Its bids for RFA Largs Bay and RFA Lyme Bay proved disastrous for the company, the MoD and the RFA, due to cost overruns and schedule delays. 1936 The Admiralty further built up their strength from 1936 with six destroyers completed over the next three years: Hunter, Hyperion, Janus, Khartoum, Somali and Tartar. HMS Hunter was a H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. The largest were Thiare and Torinia, built for Shell at 15260 dwt. 1913 Reina Victoria-Eugenia, a magnificent Spanish liner of 9726 grt was completed for Cia Transatlantica. Both engine-building works went onto produce many sets of diesel and oil engines. RM 2CGP4J8 - Tanker Tyne Pride, Leslie Street, Wallsend, Swan Hunter Shipbuilders, 1975 Provence had room for 139 first class, 113 tourist class and 1052 third class passengers. 24. Other vessels included 30 destroyers and destroyer escorts including 16 of the Hunt class. 1938 Dominion Monarch (27155 grt) a flagship for Shaw, Savill and Albion Co. Ltd was launched on 27th July, it was completed in January 1939 and sailed on her maiden voyage to Wellington on 17th February 1939. 91 1976 Hindustan D / H / P South Shields Something went wrong, please try again later. Aircraft carriers, passenger liners, cargo liners, ferries, ice breakers, destroyers, frigates and submarines and other vessels were constructed by Swans' skilled workforce. She was the largest Neptune ship when launched in September 1960 for Cia Nacional of Lisbon. [11], The Company was privatised again in 1987 but decided to close its Neptune Yard in 1988. [12] It was then forced to call in the receivers when the UK government awarded the contract for HMSOcean to Kvaerner Govan in 1993. [26] The company announced further equipment pool growth through a 15Te tensioner and 450Te reel drive system. 3 1970 Esso Northumbria D / H / P Wallsend Of the 73, two . 30. It was launched in 1906 and was the world's largest ship until 1911 when the RMS Olympic was built - a sistership of the Titanic which was completed in 1912. Sunderland Ship Builders Ltd., Sunderland, England : Romney 3 / Napier Star 3 : Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd., Wallsend, England Hoegh Duke Rangatira Thomas Royden & Sons, Liverpool, England . The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company of Canada also had a similar sized ferry built by the yard in the same year: Prince Rupert 3379/09 and then a larger ferry two years later Princess Alice 5099/11. Both operated on the two-stroke cycle and used blast fuel injection. 105 1979 Royal Prince D / H / P Walker [20] During this time, Lyme Bay's earlier sister ship, Largs Bay, was noted as the last ship to be built and fully completed by Swan Hunter. .didnt leave,so the shipdidnt sink,and thats madness,Lears songthats Touchstones forest jest,thats swan of Avon logic.Hilda Doolittle (18861961), I have seen old ships sail like swans asleepJames Elroy Flecker (18841919), Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900). London: Cassell & Co. ISBN 1-85409-521-8. The ship featured an all-welded aluminium superstructure for lightness and was one of the first liners to make use of this metal. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, L. A. Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry: A Guide to Historical Records (1992). There were eight 250,000 dwt tankers built, the first Esso Northumbria , the last Tyne Pride, 20. The basic design of the lifting systems was completed by the end of 2008, and detail design of the hulls by May 2010. 1933 There were very few completions during this year. Shipbuilder: Swan Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders Ltd (1969-1983) 18. 106 1979 Pacific Swan D / H / P Hebburn That company was an early manufacturer of Parsons turbine engines, which enabled the Mauretania to achieve its great speed. However, the small coaster Peter G. Campbell, launched on 13th April 1933 was significant as she was the first all-welded ship from the yard. KEY BELOW: D - Dimensions; H - History; P - Photographs long, 76ft. Shipbuilders Ships River Views About Copyright Above: Select the required shipbuilder by using initial letter of the surname eg: Armstrong, Palmer or Readhead. 104 1979 Crown Prince D / H / P Walker 94-97 Not allocated 49 1973 Corabank D / H / P South Shields All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. 1959/60 The cruiser Lion was completed, having lain incomplete since the War. 87 112,000 Tanker - Cancelled The trials of the floating workshop which has been constructed by Swan, Hunter, and Wigham-Richardson, Limited, to the order of the Natal Government, took place in the presence of the consulting engineer for the Natal Government. She was of 10816 grt and 528 feet length and turbine-powered to twin propellers. It was like the Grand National when the dinner time buzzer went off as everyone raced to the canteen. 99 1976 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 21. It could carry 119 first-class and 384 tourist-class passengers. Lib - Liz Rees an archiveist at the Discovery museum with old photogaphs of Swan Hunter when it was the Neptune Yard back in the early 1900's.. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. In 2002, whilst being broken up, she was boarded by Greenpeace campaigners protesting about conditions in the shipbreaking industry. 18 1970 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 13. Her name was a reference to the Dominion of New Zealand. WW1 Twenty five large tankers were also completed by the yard before the outbreak of World War 1. The only battleship built at Wallend was HMS. . At that time Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd. owned and operated three shipyards on the north bank of the Tyne (i.e. 12. These were single screw turbine steamers with room for 201 first class and 40 second class passengers on the London to Gothenburg service. In the machine shops at the Neptune yard during WWI a lot of women were employed in making 300,000 shell casings for the Army. The name of the poet and welder who wrote many odes' about life and personalities was Ripyard Cuddling (Jackie Davit) - which were always keenly anticipated throughout the company. 9 1969 Tabaristan D / H / P South Shields ". 1949 John W. Elliott elected Chairman of the Company. 1085 1974 Copenhagen D / H / P Neptune People Other customers included New Zealand Companies, Federal Steam navigation (Northumberland 12160/15) and Union Steamship Company of New Zealand (Armagh 12159/17). 1961 Parent of group of five subsidiaries engaged as shipbuilders, marine engineers, ship repairers and builders of passenger liners, cargo ships, oil tankers, ore carriers and cable ships, warships and floating docks. that's Touchstone's forest jest, that's swan of Avon logic. Grace's Guide web site design is Copyright 2021 by Grace's Guide Ltd. The burned hulk was beached on Gravina Island where it remained for the next few years until it was towed to Seattle, Washington and broken up for scrap. She was rebuilt in 1981 as a cruise liner and later became an accommodation vessel at a penal colony for terrorists and members of the Mafia. Two small cargo liners were made for China Merchants S.N. In 1945 the ship caught fire in the harbour of Ketchikan, Alaska. Built at Swan Hunter in the United Kingdom and launched in 1977, she was delivered to Iran in 1984. 1913-1914 Eight cargo liners with accommodation completed for the British India Steam navigation Company. The workshop is lighted throughout by electricity and with accommodation for both workmen and crew. Including two banana boats completed for Elders & Fyffes. He was the person who got your Woodbine cigarettes during the week and was reimbursed with cash when you got paid. 14. Prior to this, in 1939, he was appointed Assistant Manager of the Wallsend Dry Docks Dept, becoming General Manager in 1943. 59 1974 Gold Rover D / H / P Neptune Swan & Hunter was founded by George Burton Hunter, who formed a partnership with the widow of Charles Sheridan Swan (the owner of a Wallsend Shipbuilding business established in 1852 by Charles Mitchell)[2] under the name in 1880. 20 1970 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 47 1973 Frank D Moores D / H / P Hebburn 61 1978 Newcastle D / H / P Neptune 17 1970 Aska D / H / P South Shields This web publication contains 147,919 pages of Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and 137 1995 Richmond D / H / P Wallsend Duce, Richard (1993-05-12). 67 1977 Geroi Novorossiyska D / H / P Hebburn Dock 1914 Directory: Listed as Ship Builders of Southwick, Sunderland. Maxtone-Graham, John (1972), Page 25, The Only Way to Cross. This page was last edited on 28 August 2021, at 15:35. 37 1971 Sheaf Field D / H / P South Shields 60 tankers were completed out of 180 ships built by the Company over this period. She was scrapped in 1962. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and 50 1973 Meadowbank D / H / P Wallsend [22], In 2008, the company said it was concentrating on ship design with just under 200 people employed. 22. George Burton Hunter continued as chairman until 1928. Two French cargo-liners were also manufactured and a variety of vessels were made for France, Holland, Indo-China. Policy. 1337 1978 Starman Anglia D / H / P Neptune She was a member of the first subgroup of the class. Also in 1903 the Company took a controlling interest in the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, which was an early licensed manufacturer of Parsons steam turbine engines, which enabled Mauretania to achieve her great speed. Tanker "Helicina". He led the group through the 1960s and 1970s and died in retirement in 1981 at the age of 71 years. The launch of the 42,000 ton cargo carrier Hoegh Duke at Swan Hunter shipyard in Wallsend 6 September 1983. The trio of vessels made for Bowring ( Regent Lion, Regent Panther and Regent Tiger) could carry 14540 tons of petrol. The entire plant machinery and equipment from Swan Hunter was dismantled and transported to India over six months to be rebuilt at Bharati Shipyards. 1928 The car-carrier Seatrain (7624/28) was completed for Overseas Railway Inc of the U.S.A. and was a fore runner of the huge slab-sided car carriers of the present day. 1954 The light aircraft carrier Albion was completed, having lain incomplete since being launched at the yard in 1947. A giant oil tanker was a common sight at the end of Leslie Street in Wallsend. List of British tonnage ships built by Swan Hunter This is a list of British ships built by Swan Hunter in the last twenty years of the 19th century and the first three decades of the 20th. This equates to one third of output. 3 hold was the cross-bunker hold between bridge and engineer accommodation. She left service in 1935. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and In cases where no official launching ceremony was held, the date built or completed may be used instead. 1961 The Portuguese liner Principe Perfeito of 19,393 grt was delivered by the Neptune Yard in 1961. SS Warrimoo was an Australian/New Zealand passenger ship, launched in 1892. The Based in Wallsend Shipyard, Tyne and Wear, the company was responsible for some of the greatest ships of the early 20th century most famously, the RMS Mauretania, which held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, and the RMS Carpathia, which rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic. Dwarka was powered by Doxford oil engines and had accommodation for 50 passengers in cabins as well as many Indian deck passengers on her voyages to the Persian Gulf. The Kharg entered the . Hague, Arnold (1993). The company also owned the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, the yard that built the engines for the Mauretania, from 1903 until the 1980s. In 2000 Swan Hunter was awarded the contract to design and build two (Auxiliary) Landing Ship Dock ships for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary with two other ships being built by BAE Systems Naval Ships: the cost of the two Swan Hunter ships was to be 210 million including 62 million for lead yard services, with an inservice date of 2004. 119 Not allocated 138 Allocated to refit work 134 Allocated to refit work Even a minute late meant you were docked quarter of an hour pay. Swan Hunter obtained a licence from the Swedish engine designer AB Diesel Motorer of Stockholm that became the basis for two different designs of Neptune engines introduced during the early 1920s, the so-called "A" and "B." 1949 Compania Nacional de Navegacao, Lisbon took delivery of the twin-screw passenger and cargo liner Mocambique of 12976 grt for their service between Portugal and Angola and Mozambique. [14] However, the main shipyard in Wallsend was bought out from receivership by Jaap Kroese, a Dutch millionaire. This also coincided with the abandonment of Treaty limitations on battleship size. 1957 E. John Hunter, grandson of the founder, was appointed Chairman in May 1957. The Grand Trunk Steamship Prince George, and sister ship SSPrince Rupert, provided passenger service along the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. She saw service in the Second World War and later as an Egyptian Navy ship in the Suez Crisis. S.S. Peter G. Campbell. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Passenger lists and Emigrant ships from Norway-Heritage In this database you will be able to find ships, not only those which departed directly from Norway, but also other transatlantic ships which carried emigrants. 88 1978 Begonia D / H / P Walker 65 1975 Yorkshire D / H / P Hebburn Dock & Walker But in 2006 Swan Hunter stopped building vessels on Tyneside, but continued to provide design engineering services. text of this web site is available under the Creative 52 1973 Forthbank D / H / P Hebburn Between 1919 and 1931 over 50 tankers were completed: the largest was San Florentino (18000 dwt in 1919 and Pan Scandia (14750 dwt in 1931). Swan Hunter started to offer specialist equipment, design, engineering & project management services to the offshore renewables and subsea oil & gas energy markets. The shipyards for which the operating company Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd was made responsible to the Corporation were Wallsend Shipyard, Neptune Shipyard, Walker Shipyard, Hebburn Shipyard and Hebburn Shipbuilding Dock. 81 157,000 OBO - Cancelled But if you have any others please dont hesitate to let us know in the comments. General Transportes Maritimes (SGTM) as a replacement for their Campana built at the Neptune Yard in 1929. The yard completed pontoons and docks of all sizes to customers around the world. 64 1977 Everett F Wells D / H / P Wallsend Southampton a Type 42 destroyer was brought to the Tyne on a heavy lift ship, after it collided in the Persian Gulf , and re-built at Hebburn yard. A buzzer signified the start of the working day at 7.30am, lunch at 12 noon and then when the day finished. Hunter Dunn,Furnishd and burnishd by Aldershot sun,What strenuous singles we played after tea,We in the tournamentyou against me!Sir John Betjeman (19061984). 7 1970 Grey Rover D / H / P Hebburn Ships built by Swan Hunter All items (83) # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other A SS Abukir CSS Acadia Greek destroyer Adrias Greek destroyer Adrias (L67) HMS Albion (R07) America Maru HMS Anson (79) HMS Ark Royal (R07) SS Atlantic Causeway SS Atlantic Conveyor B HMS Barfleur (D80) RFA Black Rover (A273) Maintained by Sapere Software. These orders kept the company afloat for much of the 1920s. 28 1974 World Unicorn D / H / P Wallsend Once a world leader. QSMV Dominion Monarch was a UK passenger and refrigerated cargo liner. 127 1991 Marlborough D / H / P Wallsend 498 feet in length with room for 200 first class, 46 alternate first and second, 100 second class, 80 third class and 1642 emigrants. 1920 Swan, Hunter Wigham Richardson and Co and Beardmores together acquired the Glasgow Iron and Steel Co. 1922 The company extended its assets to include the North of Ireland Shipbuilding Co, Londonderry, shipbuilders Philip and Son, Dartmouth, the North British Engine Works (1922) Ltd, Glasgow and Stobcross Boiler Works, Glasgow along with iron and steel works in Glasgow and ship repairers in Swansea. text of this web site is available under the Creative "El Lobo". 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