Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
1836. Established by James Penny Nicholson with Daniel Simpson, a ship wright from Liverpool.
Graving dock opened in December 1840.
James and Daniel resigned in 1852 and his brother Matthew Nicholson took over.
1907 Shipbuilding ended when the yard was Nicholson and Sons
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