Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company

Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company Ltd. was a Point Pleasant, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear on the River Tyne, resident shipbuilding companies. It was about a mile downstream from the Swan Hunter shipyard known and was later acquired by it.

History

Early years

The corporation was registered from October 2, 1871 and the following November by the shipbuilder Charles Mitchell and a group of shipping companies from Newcastle -upon- Tyne, who needed a repair and Dock operation for their ships, as The Wallsend Slipway Co. with on a site two 100 -meter-long slipways founded. One of the first collateral received for repair ships was 1873, the Earl Percy. The in 1874 appointed managing director Willam Boyd initiated in 1873 the construction of the first ship steam engines, which developed over the next ten years the most important pillar of the yard and the word " engineering " used in 1878 founded the company name The Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co Ltd. 1881 a new boiler workshop is built and completed in 1897 to a private dry dock, which made it possible to repair ships up to about 160 meters.

Swan Hunter

In 1903 Swan Hunter took over the lion's share of the company. The company provided all types of boilers, steam engines and Parsons turbines for numerous naval and merchant ships. 1904, the boiler workshop will be extended in order to produce the huge boilers and steam turbines for the famous RMS Mauretania can. At the beginning of the First World War, the program was extended to engines and burners, including after the Wallsend - Howden Patent liquid combustion system. Installed in 1915 to the first engine in the Abelia of owner Marcus Samuel. 1961 3,000 people work at Wallsend Slipway.

Nationalization and re-privatization

On 1 July 1977, the shipyard was incorporated in the State British Shipbuilders Corporation and sold in the re-privatization from the early 1980s to the AMEC. As Hadrian Yard were there until 2001, parts of the Gateshead Millennium Bridge and the end of 2003 offshore structures manufactured such as FPSO 's for the Bonga field .. In January 2005, the shipyard was temporarily mothballed and in June of the same year reported AMEC, which for the shipyard new development should be sold. The intention to sell has been reported in April 2008 and again in November 2008, the shipyard was finally purchased by Shepherd Offshore. In March 2009, " SLP", a company from Surrey reported that it had leased offshore for the production of offshore gas production platforms in the North Sea Shepherd of the shipyard.