FURNESS, WITHY & Company Ltd.
HARTLEPOOL
1891 - 1908
The Middleton yard previously operated as Edward Withy & Co. was owned by Christopher Furness after Edward Withy emigrated in 1884, and was registered as Furness, Withy & Company from 1891, being then part of a growing shipowning and shipbuilding empire. In 1908 the yard was merged with Irvine's Harbour Yard and then operated as Irvine's Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co. Ltd. (see separate list).
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