Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Yarrow and Hedley

From Graces Guide
1867. Scene at The Yarrow Yard.
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1869. Steam Launch for the Viceroy of Egypt.
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of Folly Wall, Isle of Dogs, Poplar.

1865/6 Alfred Yarrow established a partnership with Robert Hedley as Yarrow and Hedley, at Folly Wall, Poplar on the east side of the Isle of Dogs (north of the yard of Samuda Brothers; south of Blackwall Ironworks[1]) to build steam river launches.

1870s Built torpedo boats for the Argentine and Japanese navies

1875 Partnership changed. '...the Partnership between the undersigned, Alfred Fernandez Yarrow and Robert Hedley, in the trade or business of Engineers and Steam Launch Builders, at Hope-yard, Blackwall, Middlesex, under the firm of Yarrow and Hedley, was this day dissolved by mutual consent; and in future the business will be carried on by the said Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, on his separate account...'[2]

The firm became Yarrow and Co

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