Wear Concrete Building Co
From Graces Guide
of Southwick, Sunderland
1918 The Wear Concrete Building Company Limited was incorporated.[1] The company intended to build a new yard on the Wear, with seven or eight berths, to build reinforced concrete ships up to 300ft. in length. At first tugs, lighters, sea-going barges, and other small craft were to be constructed but it was hoped, in due course, to build ocean-going merchant vessels.[2]
The first of the vessels was launched, the Cretehawser, a sea-going tug.
1925 The company went into voluntary liquidation.[3]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The National Archives BT 31/23953/149545
- ↑ Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail 25 February 1918
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33030/page/1900