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** Oil tanker ‘Massis’ completed at Armstong Mitchells shipyard in Low Walker{{sfn|Flowers & Histon|1999|p=30}} |
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** [[R and W Hawthorn]] merged with [[A. Leslie and Company]] shipbuilders in [[Hebburn]] to become [[R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company]]{{sfn|Colls & Lancaster|2001|p=40}} |
** [[R and W Hawthorn]] merged with [[A. Leslie and Company]] shipbuilders in [[Hebburn]] to become [[R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company]]{{sfn|Colls & Lancaster|2001|p=40}} |
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Revision as of 13:28, 19 September 2025
The following is a timeline of the history of shipbuilding on the River Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England.
19th Century
1840s
1850s
1860s
- 1860
- 1868
- Gunboat for the Admiralty built to WG Armstrong’s order by CW Mitchell’s shipyard at Walker
1880s
- 1881
- Oil tanker ‘Massis’ completed at Armstong Mitchells shipyard in Low Walker
- 1882
- WG Armstrongs merged merged with Charles Mitchell‘s shipyard at Low Walker to become Armstrong Mitchells
- 1884
- Shipyard devoted exclusively to warship construction opened by WG Armstrong at Elswick
- 1886
- 1888
- John Wigham Richardson‘s Neptune shipyard delivered the ‘Alfonso XII’, a Spanish passenger liner and troopship
1890s
1890s
- 1890
- John Wigham Richardson‘s Neptune shipyard completed the ‘Hornby Grange’, one of the world’s first refridgerated cargo ships
- 1897
- Armstrong Mitchells merged with the Manchester armaments works of Whitworths to become Armstrong Whitworth
- 1898
- Ice breaker Yermak launched at Low Walker yard of Armstrong Whitworth for the Russian government
20th Century
1900s
1910s
- 1912-1913
- Armstrong Whitworths’ Walker Naval Yard began production
- 1913
- 1914
- By September nearly 2,000 men from Armstrong Whitworth had enlisted in the army, as well as nearly 1,000 from Hawthorn & Leslie
- Ice breakers ‘Alexander Nevsk‘ and ‘Sviatogor’ completed at Low Walker yard of Armstrong Whitworth
- 1918
- 1919
- Newcastle Shipbuilding Company established under the chairmanship of John Crass
1920s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1980s
- 1988
- HMS Chathaw, frigate for the Royal Navy, launched at the Neptune shipyard and was the final ship to be built in Newcastle upon Tyne
See also
References
Sources
- Colls, Robert; Lancaster, Bill (2001). Newcastle upon Tyne. A Modern History. Chichester: Phillimore & Co Ltd. ISBN 1-86077-167-X.
- Flowers, Anna; Histon, Vanessa (1999). Water Under the Bridges, Newcastle’s Twentieth Century. Newcastle upon Tyne: Tyne Bridge Publishing. ISBN 1-85795-140-9.
- Middlebrook, Sydney (1968). Newcastle upon Tyne. Its Growth and Achievement. Wakefield: S.R. Publishers ltd.
