Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and
manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,649 pages of
information and 247,065 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.
Engine of Hartlepool-built PS 'Wingfield Castle'Engine room of PS 'Wingfield Castle', showing Clarke, Chapman and Co engine which drove the ship's generatorFowler and Holden manhole cover on PS 'Wingfield Castle'Shipyard model of Engine of SS 'Digby', built by Irvine's Shipbuilding and Dry Docks Co Ltd of West Hartlepool for Furness, Withy and CoRecipe book for steel stern frame casting, and shipyard model of stern frame of SS 'Yokohama', built by William Gray and CoHalf hull model of iron steam ship SS 'Tom Bell', built by Denton, Gray and Co for G. Pyman (predecessor of Pyman Steamship Co?) in 1870. The model was used to show how plates were to be fitted on the hull Tide gauge made by Cooke, Troughton and Simms
Note that the Hartlepool's Maritime Experience is on the same site. Admission is free to the museum, and to the moored paddle steamer PS Wingfield Castle, while admission charges apply to the Maritime Experience.