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[1] In the summer of 1939 Short's reopened again. [1] During the Second World War it built mostly tramp steamers, plus two tankers and one LCT. [1] Under the direction of the Ministry of War Transport by the end of 1944 Short's switched from building ships to its own design to assembling partly prefabricated government standard C-type cargo ...
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.
Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock, Newport News, Virginia; New York Shipbuilding Corporation (New York Ship), Camden, New Jersey (1899–1967) Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia; North Florida Shipyards, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida; Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Portland, Oregon, part of the Kaiser Shipyards
SS Ballyholme Bay (1908), built by Sunderland Shipbuilding Co Ltd as Odland, served as Ballyholme Bay 1947–52 SS Ballyholme Bay (1942) , a Type N3-S ship built as Anthony Enright , served as Ballyholme Bay 1952–53
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.
MV Roger Blough is a ship built in 1972 by American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio. She serves as a lake freighter on the Great Lakes . The ship is owned by Great Lakes Fleet , Inc. and is named for the former chairman of U.S. Steel , Roger Blough .
The small yards of J. Blumer & Son (at North Dock) and the Sunderland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (at Hudson Dock) both closed in the 1920s, and other yards were closed down by National Shipbuilders Securities in the 1930s (including Osbourne, Graham & Co., way upriver at North Hylton, Robert Thompson & Sons at Southwick, and the 'overflow' yards ...
Wauketa, "White Star Line," Launched at Toledo Ship Building Company's Yards, Toledo, Ohio, 1908. The Toledo Shipbuilding Company, which became an operating unit of the American Shipbuilding Company by consolidation in 1945, [6] was itself the builder of several of the most well-known coal-fired steamships of the Great Lakes, such as the SS ...