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Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, shipbuilders

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Alternative name(s):
  • Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd (Later known as)
Date: 1800-2000
Places:
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
  • Wallsend, Northumberland
Functions, occupations and activities: Engineering: Mechanical > Shipbuilding and marine engineering
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C116515 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B6650 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
19th-20th cent: further records
Tyne and Wear Archives
Accs 2782, 2931
See Annual Returns 1993, 1994, 1996
2
1860-1971: minutes, financial and share records, corresp,ships particulars books, note books, data books
Tyne and Wear Archives
DS.SWH
NRA 23331 Swan Hunter

See HMC Records of British business and industry 1760-1914 metal processing and engineering, 1994
3
1875-1898: salaries book
Tyne and Wear Archives
Acc 2263/1
NRA 8919 Tyne and Wear misc
4
1904-21: particulars book
Tyne and Wear Archives
DS.SWH/4/2/3/3
See Annual Return 2011
5
1922-1979: plans and papers for the cable ship John W Mackay (built 1922) and the nuclear fuel carrier Pacific Crane (built 1979)
Tyne and Wear Archives
DX1393
See Annual Return 2011
6
1934-1982: record of ships docked at Wallsend Slipway 1934-1950 and a diary of the Falklands conflict as seen from troop ship SS Canberra, 1982
Tyne and Wear Archives
DX1422
See Annual Return 2011
7
1948-56: 'The Shipyard' works magazine
Tyne and Wear Archives
DX977
NRA 8919 Tyne and Wear misc
8
1938-1970: papers rel to ships
Tyne and Wear Archives
DX888
9
1967-69: misc papers
Durham University Library and Collections
GRE-I
NRA 6228 Grey
10
1969: Esso Northumbria: film showing launch of vessel
Tyne and Wear Archives
DX868
11
1984-1992: papers rel MV Atlantic Conveyor and HMS Westminster, brochure and prospectus for shipyard
Tyne and Wear Archives
DX934
12
1895-1961: minutes, houses magazines
Tyne and Wear Archives
DS.SWH
See Annual Return 2013
13
1910-68: visitors book for Neptune Yard
Tyne and Wear Archives
DS.SWH
See Annual Return 2011