H.M.S. She was under repair for the next year and a half, after which she rejoined the Mediterranean Fleet.During the first few months of the Second World War . This was a meaningless name which was quickly changed to Swan Hunter Group by November of the same year. 80 1978 Trinculo D / H / P Hebburn Dock She was the largest Neptune ship when launched in September 1960 for Cia Nacional of Lisbon. The passenger and cargo liner El Kantera (5213/32) for Cie Na de Mixte of France was a valuable order along with the Norwegian cargo ship Fjordheim (4114/30) for Nils Rogenaes. Southampton Castle was launched by Princess Alexandria and reached speeds of 23 knots and this one vessel replaced two passenger liners on the weekly South African schedule. The All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. Swan Hunter Built Warships A look at the hundreds of ships built by one of the main builders of the British naval vessels over a hundred years. 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. Swan Hunter: Wallsend: Built in 1965 as a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry, she spent much of her later life as one of the permanently moored Tuxedo floating nightclubs before being laid up, latterly on the River Tees in Middlesbrough. [19], In November 2006, after the failure to complete Lyme Bay within budget and resulting exclusion from future Royal Navy shipbuilding projects, Jaap Kroese announced that the business was effectively finished and placed the Wallsend Yard's iconic cranes up for sale. 5. The Iranian ship Kharg is a modified Ol-class replenishment oiler of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, named after Kharg Island. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy The last ship built at Walker shipyard was the container ship Dunedin. In April 2007, Swan Hunter's cranes, along with its floating dock and other equipment, were sold to Bharati Shipyards, India's second-largest private-sector shipbuilder. These were: Umtata (8141 grt) for Bullard, King; Explorer (6295 grt) for T&J Harrison; and Port Townsville (8661 grt) for Port Line. 49 1973 Corabank D / H / P South Shields [9] In 1973 further expansion came with the purchase of Palmers Dock at Hebburn from Vickers-Armstrongs. Leda began her twice-weekly run to Stavanger and Bergen from the Tyne in April 1953. 1946 Tanker production resumed, which was a major feature of the yards output until they amalgamated with the other yards on the river in 1968. 31 1974 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill 1909 a new design of train and passenger ferry completed for the Swedish Government. 4. manufacturing in Britain. In 2000 Swan Hunter was awarded the contract to design and build two Royal Navy Auxiliaries, called Landing Ship Docks, for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary with two other ships being built by BAE Systems Naval Ships. Along with her two sisters Blake and Tiger (completed on the Clyde), these ships were the last Royal Navy Cruisers. 30. Work on the Mauretania began as early as 1901, when Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson submitted plans for two ships. They had four cylinder Doxford-type opposed piston oil engines constructed at the Neptune Works, except for Hopestar which was experimentally turbine-powered. He had a book published with many of his observations of life in the yards. She was launched in 1940 and served during the Second World War. [10], Then in 1977, Swan Hunter Group was nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders. The company was responsible for some of the greatest ships of the early 20th century, most famously RMS Mauretania which held the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic, and RMS Carpathia which rescued survivors from RMS Titanic. Grace's Guide web site design is Copyright 2021 by Grace's Guide Ltd. Duce, Richard (1993-05-12). Construct warships and many kinds of vessels for special purposes, laying submarine cables, carrying oil in bulk, fruit, frozen meat, cattle, railway trains etc. Other SGTM vessels: Sidi del Abbes of 5226 grt (1948 95 first- class, 226 tourist-class, 573 third-class passengers, President de Cazalet (an exact sister ship also built in 1948 for the Cie de Navigation Mixte fleet). The liner was launched as Sobieski of 11030 grt as a twin-screw motorship and was completed during 1939 with room for 44 first-class, 250 third-class and 850 emigrants. Swan & Hunter merged with Wigham Richardson (founded by John Wigham Richardson as Neptune Works in 1860), specifically to bid for the important contract to build RMSMauretania on behalf of Cunard. Ship built 1952 for Norway - England route. He led the group through the 1960s and 1970s and died in retirement in . Other vessels included 30 destroyers and destroyer escorts including 16 of the Hunt class. Initiation jokes were hilarious - Gan and get a tin of tartan paint or gan and get us a rubber hammer and a long stand' - which left newbies standing for a while in the storeroom. people who designed and built them. 1912 A new four berth yard was opened under the Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson name at Southwick on the Wear (see below) to take up excess orders for tramps, colliers and Great Lakes steamers. 1927 See Aberconway and Aberconway for information on the company and its history. 1920 The yard was fully occupied completing B types. Paper notes stuck out from your wage packet so you could count your pounds before your coins. 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 dry docks in Govan (also owned by Barclays) were also acquired as was Barclaay's Clydeholm yard. She was of 10816 grt and 528 feet length and turbine-powered to twin propellers. [13] The receiver took steps to break up the business. 1091 1979 Cardiff D / H / P Hebburn Hague, Arnold (1993). [1]. 25-27 1971 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill Another notable vessel was Sirdhana (8608/47) which had room for 83 passengers in cabins. 101 1980 Exeter D / H / P Neptune 112 1983 B P Achiever D / H / P Hebburn Dock [5], 1914 Shipbuilders and repairers, engine manufacturers and floating docks. 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. She saw service in the Second World War and later as an Egyptian Navy ship in the Suez Crisis. 109 1985 Ark Royal D / H / P Wallsend 33 1972 Rangatira D / H / P Walker Shipbuilder: Swan Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders Ltd (1969-1983) Shipbuilder: Swan Hunter Ltd (1983 - 1994) More: History People Photos KEY BELOW: D - Dimensions; H - History; P - Photographs Employees 6,000 to 7,000. After many mergers and takeovers, nationalisation and de-nationalisation, the Swan, Hunter name continues as engineering consultants to the ship-building industry.. Perhaps the last cableship built by Swan Hunter was the Sir Eric Sharp, launched in 1988.Named after the chairmain of Cable & Wireless, the ship is still in service today, but under the new name of CS IT Intrepid after its purchase . . Also Marina and Manistee both 3,868 grt, as well as the Yacht Albion (1116/04) for Sir George Newnes. Two small cargo liners were made for China Merchants S.N. Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and Motor liner Dominion Monarch. In 2002, whilst being broken up, she was boarded by Greenpeace campaigners protesting about conditions in the shipbreaking industry. 38 1972 Chemical Venturer D / H / P Hebburn 22. The Yard was closed because of the Depression, as its main owners had no use for it. . 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. Two more high spec cargo-liners were completed for the Chargeurs Reunis fleet: Brazza and Foucauld both 9095/48 and twin-screw motor-ships with room for 103 first-class, 78 second-class and 400 third-class passengers. 1943 The yard was known as the National Shipbuilding Corporation (Wear) yard and began launching its own ships from December 1943. On the deck of the vessel and enclosed in a large house is placed the workshop machinery, which consists of punching and shearing machine, lathe, steam hammer, drilling shaping, and screwing machines, smiths fires, straightening blocks, vice bench and anvil, etc., the whole of which is driven by electric motive power, which has been supplied by Messrs J. H. Holmes and Co. They were also tramp owners at this time. information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the Prior to this, in 1939, he was appointed Assistant Manager of the Wallsend Dry Docks Dept, becoming General Manager in 1943. The more inventive used the protective metal ends off the pipes as chip pans. 13. She was captured in battle on 31 October 1956 by the Israeli Navy and re-commissioned as INS Haifa (K-38). 1914 Directory: Listed as Ship Builders of Southwick, Sunderland. The trio of vessels made for Bowring ( Regent Lion, Regent Panther and Regent Tiger) could carry 14540 tons of petrol. Payday was always Friday and workers queued up to get their wage packets. Wallsend received the Mauretania, and the Lusitania went to Clydebank, 'Metal Bashing' between the wars at the Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson yard at Wallsend, The Mauretania enters the river Tyne at the Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, on September 20 1906, A packet of Woodbine cigarettes (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images), The yards, like Swan Hunter, Palmers and Redhead, employed generations of families, and brought wealth and fame to the region, Slips by the side of bulk paper carrier, Swan Hunter. She could also carry 8600 tons of cargo and was sold for cruising in 1976. Above: Select the required shipbuilder by using initial letter of the surname eg: Armstrong, Palmer or Readhead. [16] Workers earned their nicknames from the jobs they did - Geordie the Beltman, Jackie the Welder, etc. 48 1972 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill Mum of Cramlington woman falls ill while supporting her daughter through major surgery in Spain, Melanie Hartshorn's mum Molly has been diagnosed with heart failure, Resident fumes at neighbour who 'keeps reserving street parking with cones'. Its yards at Wallsend. All three were powered by six steam turbines driving twin screws. 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. 340 1978 Aldrington D / H / P Neptune 91 1976 Hindustan D / H / P South Shields 28. This crane has been made by Messrs Joseph Booth and Brothers, of Rodley. [5], In 1966, Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson merged with Smiths Dock Company to form Associated Shipbuilders, which later became Swan Hunter Group. Swan Hunter amalgamated with Wigham Richardson in 1903 so that they could tender for the Mauretania. 1904-07 Six cargo-liners completed for Hansa Company of Germany and further cargo liners for the Indo-China Steamship Company Ltd. 1906 RMS Mauretania was launched from Wallsend on Tyne on 20 September 1906 to the cheers of huge crowds. A powerful cantilever crane having span of 40 feet and capable of lifting 15 tons is placed the forward end of the vessel. It was powered by two sets of steam turbines by Wallsend Slipway Co to give a speed of 22 knots. Makers of steam turbines and diesel engines of Doxford, Sulzer, Polar and Stork types, boilers of all types and oil burning installations for marine and land work[8]. It was a major employer for decades and some of the worlds most famous ships were built there. 131 Allocated to refit work 10 1969 Vortigern D / H / P Neptune Provence had room for 139 first class, 113 tourist class and 1052 third class passengers. 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." 3 1970 Esso Northumbria D / H / P Wallsend 1 1969 Atlantic Causeway D / H / P Walker 74-75 LNG Tanker - Cancelled Bergen Lines main competitors Swedish Lloyd previously took delivery of Patricia 6644/51 form the Neptune Yard for their Gothenburg to London service. [27] Swan Hunter announced loading tower readiness on 5 May 2017[28] with completion of mobilisation onto EMAS Chiyoda Subsea's multi-lay vessel 'Lewek Constellation' shortly thereafter.[29]. KEY BELOW: D - Dimensions; H - History; P - Photographs During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 the ship enforced the arms blockade imposed on both sides by Britain and France, until she struck a mine in May 1937. 8. long, 76ft. USS Merrimac (1894) Brazilian aircraft carrier Minas Gerais SS Miowera N HMS Newcastle (D87) Noosfera (icebreaker) HMS Northumberland (F238) O HMS Orby (1918) P HMS Pasley (1916) HMS Pellew (F62) Greek destroyer Pindos MV Port Fairy HMS Port Napier SS Prince George SS Prince Rupert SS Princess Alice (1911) SS Princess Victoria SS Prncipe Perfeito It was only the yards ability to build every type of ship that kept it going. 306 second class,1800 third class passengers who had cabins and public rooms comparable with first class on other liners. British India Line and Clan Line were also good customers, commissioning 11 cargo-liners including, Dwarka (4851/47). 12. 1910/11 Hopemount made their greatest trading profit of 8,711. [7] The former flagship of the Royal Navy, HMSArk Royal was built at Swan Hunter during this period, entering service in 1985. List of ships built at Swan Hunter (Neptune) Login to Edit: From: 1965: Support Ship: OL class: 1966: Support Ship: Ness class: 1973: Guided-Missile Destroyer: Type 82 . Other customers included New Zealand Companies, Federal Steam navigation (Northumberland 12160/15) and Union Steamship Company of New Zealand (Armagh 12159/17). Including two banana boats completed for Elders & Fyffes. This meant the company had the capability of producing many sets of steam turbines, Bauer-Wach exhaust turbines and triple expansion steam reciprocating engines both on the Clyde and at the Neptune Engine Works on the Tyne. 39 1973 Vistafjord D / H / P Neptune 35 1971 Stolt Lion D / H / P Hebburn 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 . 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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. 57 1976 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill [9] Meanwhile, Swan Hunter inherited both the Naval Yard at High Walker on the River Tyne of Vickers-Armstrongs[8] and the Hebburn Yard of Hawthorn Leslie in 1968. 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. 9. 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. Yd No Year Ship Name D / H / P Yard people who designed and built them. 1943-46: 18 cargo liners were produced for Ellerman Lines including Ellerman Wilson Line and Port Line. She was fitted with one of the last Swan Hunter-built Doxford oil engines as the Neptune engine works ceased production shortly afterwards. This page was last edited on 28 August 2021, at 15:35. It is fitted with twin screw compound surface condensing engines, which have been constructed Messrs Baird Brothers of North Shields, the diameter of cylinders being 12in. Built at Swan Hunter in the United Kingdom and launched in 1977, she was delivered to Iran in 1984. There were also descendants of the Swan and Wigham Richardson families on the board at this time (S. C. Swan and George Wigham Richardson) as well as Peter Denham Christie, whose grandfather had been the first manager of the Neptune yard and whose father John Denham Christie had died in October 1950. Of the 73, two . Vindex survived the war and was reconditioned by the yard between August 1948 and June 1949 when she was renamed Port Vindex. Work began picking up from late 1935 with three cargo-liners completed for three different companies leading to further orders. 1. Ports of call were Tenerife, Cape Town, Durban, Fremantle, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington. [7] The yard subsequently undertook several ad-hoc ship repair and conversion projects for private-sector customers. Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Scindia Line of India, Black Star Line of Ghana, Nigeria National Line, Indo China Steam Navigation Co. and Union Castle Mail Co also took delivery of cargo-liners. 113 Not allocated 1918 Cunard liner Aurania 13936/17 with a capacity of 2022 passengers was torpedoed and destroyed on 4th February. 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. 29. Maintained by Sapere Software. Palm, Line and Ellerman Lines were the major customers of the yards during this period, they commissioned 22 cargo-liners in total including Ilorin Palm (5442/60) which launched 17 weeks ahead of schedule in 1960. A pair of motor driven cargo-liners were placed by Silver Line: Silverpine and Silverlarch (both 5122/24) and Shaw, Savill & Albion Ltd; Coptic 10629/28 and Zealandic 11300/28. 138 Allocated to refit work The largest were Thiare and Torinia, built for Shell at 15260 dwt. Other vessels included 30 destroyers and destroyer escorts including 16 of the Hunt class. She left service in 1935. 140 1993 Pride of the Tyne D / H / P Wallsend 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. 55 1975 Not Tyne built Haverton Hill Warship construction was intense including the battleship Anson (June 1942) along with four cruisers ordered in 1937: Mauritius (1940), Newfoundland (1941), Gambia (1942) and Superb (1943). HMS Hunter was a H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. 78 1978 Lagoven Santa Rita D / H / P Hebburn Maxtone-Graham, John (1972), Page 25, The Only Way to Cross. 1912 Largest floating dock ever completed for the Admiralty. ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------, Shipbuilder: Swan Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders Ltd (1969-1983), Shipbuilder: Swan Hunter Ltd (1983 - 1994), KEY BELOW: D - Dimensions; H - History; P - Photographs. The former pair were in the three-quarters aft position. The name of the pub that sat between Wallsend yard and the Dry Docks was the "Ship in the hole". 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[6] The firm expanded rapidly in the early part of the twentieth century, acquiring the Glasgow-based Barclay Curle in 1912. Other orders were completed for the Belgian Government, Polish Ocean Lines and the Turkish Government among others. 108 1980 Kopalnia Gottwald D / H / P Hebburn Dock Tanker "Helicina". Whitley, M. J. Grace's Guide web site design is Copyright 2021 by Grace's Guide Ltd. 114 1982 Osco Ingram Osprey D / H / P Neptune In 2006 Swan Hunter ceased vessel construction on Tyneside, but continues to provide design engineering services. The ship was well-loved by passengers and won both Eastbound and Westbound . ". At the time, the company had 40 employees and contractors. But if you have any others please dont hesitate to let us know in the comments. 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