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Schlesinger, Davis and Co

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of Wallsend, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, shipbuilders

1865 See 1865 Tyne Shipbuilders for detail of the tonnage produced

1867 'Ship Launch at Wallsend. — On Wednesday last, a fine iron screw steamer, called the Alster, was launched from the yard of Messrs. Schlesinger, Davis, and Co., at Wallsend. This vessel, which is of about 1,000 tons burthen, has been built on Hamburg account, and will be furnished with engines of eighty horse-power by Messrs Thompson, Boyd and Co., of Newcastle, who supplied the engines for a sister ship, named Uhlenhorst, which was also launched from the Wallsend yard about six months since.'[1]

1872 of Wallsend[2].

1873 Coulson, Cooke and Co moved to a site at Wallsend bordering the yard of Schlesinger, Davies and Co[3]

1890 Schlesinger, Davis and Co, iron and steel ship builders of Wallsend[4]

1895/7 C. S. Swan and Hunter acquired the adjoining yard of Schlesinger, Davis and Co which increased the yard's total area by a further seven acres. The latter yard was re-equipped to handle a new type of construction - the construction of floating docks.

1902 the Schlesinger Davis yard was reorganised for two new building berths, 750 feet in length, for the construction of the largest types of ships.

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Sources of Information

  1. Newcastle Chronicle - Saturday 9 March 1867
  2. The Commercial Directory and Shippers Guide, 1872
  3. Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson [1]
  4. 1890 Ward' Directory of Newcastle upon Tyne