Forrestt and Son of the Norway Yard, Limehouse and Britannia Yard, Millwall (1888)
of Wyvenhoe, Essex and the Norway Yard, Limehouse (1889)
1788 Established.
1869 Built a steam launch for O. S. Wynne, of Penarth, Towyn, for use at Aberdovey.
1878 Constructed steam launches for the Royal Navy at Limehouse using the Willans engine[1].
1882 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Rebecca Bond, Henry Bond, John James Bond, and Arthur Harper Bond, carrying on business at Norway Yard, Limehouse, and at Britannia Yard, Napier's Yard, Millwall, Poplar, both in the county of Middlesex, as Boat Builders, under the style or firm of Forrestt and Son, has been dissolved by mutual consent, as and from the 31st day of January, 1882. All debts due to or owing by the said firm will be received and paid by the said Arthur Harper Bond, who will in future carry on the business...'[2]
1883 "Formerly builders of lifeboats for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution"[3]
1883 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Arthur Harper Bond and William Marsland Francis Schneider, carrying on business as Ship and Boat Builders and Engineers, at Britannia Yard, Millwall, and Norway Yard, Limehouse, under the style or firm of Forrestt and Son, was, on the 9th day of July instant, dissolved, by mutual consent, the said Arthur Harper Bond having retired on that day from the partnership. All debts due to and owing by the late firm will be received and paid by the said William Marsland Francis Schneider, who will continue to carry on the business under the above style on his separate account...'[4]
1885 Illustration and description of small stern wheel steam vessel made by Forrestt & Son for the Brazilian Government [5]
1887 Steam tug Midge, for Castries Harbour, St. Lucia[6]
1895 'Gunhoats for Spain.— Some gunboats which Messrs. Forrestt are now building at Wyvenhoe for the Spanish Navy, are intended to be used by the Spanish authorities in blockading the coast of Cuba, the object being, of course, to grapple with the Cuban insurgents by sea as well as by land. Altogether, Messrs. Eorrestt are to build six gunboats, and they are to be delivered within three months. The first boat, the Estrella, is already afloat, and is nearly ready for her steam trials, while the second boat, named the Flecha, has all but reached the same stage. The remaining four boats will be launched within the contract time. They are to be engined by Mr. A. J. Mumford, of Colchester, and they will carry Maxim - Nordenfelt guns, as well as marines armed with Mauser rifles. It is a good thing for Wyvenhoe and Colchester that so important a contract as this should have been secured by Messrs. Eorrestt. They have been for some time past honourably known as yacht builders, but it is a new thing for them to embark in the construction of ships of war, of however small a type.'[7]
1902 Petition for company to be wound-up.[8]
With the decline of shipbuilding on the River Thames, John Assheton Rennie moved to Wivenhoe, in Essex, where he took over the old Forrest Shipbuilding Yard and renamed it the Rennie-Forrest yard, continuing to build river vessels and coasters for the Crown Agents for the Colonies and others. He sold the business after the 1914-1918 war.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, May 06, 1878
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:25 April 1882 Issue:25099 Page:1869
- ↑ The Engineer 1883
- ↑ [The London Gazette Publication date:17 July 1883 Issue:25251 Page:3604]
- ↑ Engineering 1885/08/28
- ↑ Engineering 1887/07/22
- ↑ Engineering 1895/09/13
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:9 September 1902 Issue:27472 Page:5834