Timeline of Shipbuilding on the River Tyne: Difference between revisions

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

• 1890
  • John Wigham Richardson‘s Neptune shipyard completed the ‘Hornby Grange’, one of the world’s first refridgerated cargo ships
• 1894
• 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

1930s

1940s

• 1940
  • Vickers Armstrong naval shipyard employed 4,250 people

1950s

1960s

1980s

• 1988
  • HMS Chatham, frigate for the Royal Navy, launched at the Neptune shipyard and was the final ship to be built in Newcastle upon Tyne

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