FURNESS SHIPBUILDING COMPANY LTD.,
HAVERTON HILL
An aerial view of a busy shipyard in 1950, H.M.WRANGELL and LONDON PRIDE fitting out
The shipyard was authorised under the wartime emergency programme and construction began in 1917 on an 85 acre site (50 acres reclaimed from tidal land) and offering 2500 feet of frontage onto the River Tees at Haverton Hill, on the north bank opposite Middlesbrough. The finished yard had twelve building berths (ranging up to 700 feet) and a fitting-out basin 1000 feet x 250 feet. It was a subsidiary within the Furness shipowning group. The first keel was laid in March 1918 while the yard itself was still under construction. The yard was taken over by Swan Hunter in 1968 and its life was extended for a further 10 years (see separate yard lists).
For convenience of reference, the yard's production has been divided into two periods with vessels shown under ascending yard numbers in each year.
Yard lists
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