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Clelands Shipbuilding Company
Company typePrivate
IndustryShipbuilding
Founded1866
Defunct1984
FateAcquired
SuccessorSwan Hunter
HeadquartersWallsend, UK
Key people
K F Craggs (Chairman)[1]

Clelands Shipbuilding Company was a leading British shipbuilding company. The Company was based in Wallsend was nationalised by the British Government.

History

The Company was established by William Cleland in 1866 as Clelands Shipbuilding Company.[2] It was based at Willington Quay[3] in Wallsend and became one of the UK's leading builders of coastal vessels.[2] During the 1930s it got into financial difficulties and for a while was known as Clelands (Successors) Ltd.[2] It was acquired by Swan Hunter in 1967 and was nationalised in 1977 at which time it was subsumed into British Shipbuilders.[2] The yard closed down in 1984.[2]

References

  1. ^ Cumbria Archives
  2. ^ a b c d e Tyne & Wear Archives: Report on Access to Shipbuilding Archives in the North East of England
  3. ^ Tyne & Wear Archives: user guide Template:Wayback

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