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J.L. Thompson and Sons was a shipyard on the River Wear, Sunderland, which produced ships from the mid-18th century until the 1980s.The world-famous Liberty Ship was among the designs to be created, produced and manufactured at the yard's base at North Sands.
The three original settlements of Wearmouth (Bishopwearmouth, Monkwearmouth and Sunderland) had begun to combine, driven by the success of the port of Sunderland and salt panning and shipbuilding along the banks of the river. Around this time, Sunderland was known as 'Sunderland-near-the-Sea'. [41] A South East View of Wearmouth Bridge (c.1796).
1719 – Sunderland Parish's Holy Trinity Church opened; 1793 – Philip and John Laing established a shipyard on Monkwearmouth Shore. (The oldest surviving shipbuilding firm in Sunderland when it was absorbed into Sunderland Shipbuilders Ltd.) 1795 – Birth of Sir Henry Havelock at Ford Hall in Bishopwearmouth. [2] [1] 1796 – Wearmouth ...
Shipbuilding started on Wearside in the 1300s and by the 1970s more than 7,500 people worked in Sunderland yards, prior to the closure of the last site in 1988. However, the part women played is ...
Austin & Pickersgill was formed in Sunderland in 1954 by the merger of S.P. Austin & Son Ltd (founded by Samuel Peter Austin in c.1826) and William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd (founded c. 1838). [1] [2] After the merger, Austin's Wear Dock yard was used for repair while shipbuilding was concentrated at Pickersgill's Southwick Yard.
Short Brothers Limited was a British shipbuilding company formed in 1850 and based at Pallion, Sunderland since 1869. The company closed in 1964 when it failed to invest to build bigger ships. The company closed in 1964 when it failed to invest to build bigger ships.
Komsomolsk-on-Amur: Amur Shipbuilding Plant (1932–) Nizhny Novgorod: Krasnoye Sormovo (1849–) Polyarny: Russian Shipyard Number 10 (1935–) Rybinsk: Vympel Shipyard (1930–) Saint Petersburg. Admiralty Shipyard (1704-) Almaz (1901–) Baltic Shipyard (1864–) Kronstadt Marine Plant (1858–) Petrozavod (1721-2001) Severnaya Verf ...
Plans by the Port of South Louisiana to purchase what was once a major New Orleans area shipyard for construction of military vessels have been delayed. The port announced in January its intent to ...