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