Appledore Shipbuilders

Appledore Shipbuilders Limited is a shipyard in Appledore, North Devon. Famous products of the yard were small and medium-sized military vessels, bulk carriers, gas carriers, utilities, dredgers and ferries.

History

The company was founded in 1855 as the Richmond Shipyard of William Yeo at the mouth of Torridge. Under Yeo 1855/56 was the Richmond Dock, which was named after Richmond Bay in Prince Edward Iceland, where the shipping business of the Yeo was settled family. The dock remained until the completion of the new building docks closed, the early 1970s, the main dock of the shipyard.

From about the beginning of the 20th century, the shipyard was led by Philip Kelly Harris and traded until 1963 under the name PK Harris & Sons, 1963, from the sale of the Group Appledore Shipbuilders Seawork. The mainstay of the yard at this time was the construction of tugs, suction and hopper dredgers, barges and tank.

1964 acquired the travel company Court Line, along with the Alltransport the yard. In the late 1960s, six coastal vessels for the Royal Navy were built. It opened in 1970 to £ 4 million pound complete construction of a new Appledore shipyard on the "green meadow ", called the " factory ship " (Ship Factory). The new hall also enabled larger newbuildings, and the Department of Manufacturing. A series of coastal tankers for various owners, dredgers, container ships and Minibulker were the products of this era. As early as 1972 Appledore Shiprepairers was dissolved and abandoned the repair business.

As the Court Line collapsed in 1974, Appledore Shipbuilders was first nationalized and incorporated on 1 July 1977 in the British Shipbuilders Corporation. We established a series of five Minibulkern, gas and oil tankers, and other excavators, but also oil supplier, a Forschungsschiffa a Marine provider at this time. 1986 closed with one Appledore Ferguson Shipbuilders in Glasgow at Appledore Ferguson together. In the late 1980s, the relatively small Appledore and Ferguson shipyards were among the last remaining state-owned. Ferguson and Appledore in 1989 divided again and from the Sunderlander shipbuilding company Austin & Pickersgill ( ' A & P') emerged A & P Appledore International took over the Appledore shipyard.

Notable ships of the late 1990s were the two square-rigged sail training ships of Tall Ships Youth Trust, the Prince William and Stavros Niarchos S, which emerged from the externally supplied from Germany hulls.

After the Appledore shipyard had become insolvent in October 2003, it was acquired in the spring of 2004 by DML, the owners of the yard Devonport Dockyard.

The current name of the operated as a subsidiary of DML Appledore shipyard is now Appledore Shipbuilders (2004 ) Limited. Main business today is the installation of machinery and other systems in yachts of the company Devonport Yachts Ltd.

Known ships of Appledore Shipbuilders

• HMS echo
• MV Coruisk
• Britannia Beaver
• Star Hercules
• City of Chichester