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* 1852 Armstrong's Hydraulic Crane. Drawing. Mentions G. W. Armstrong. | * 1852 Armstrong's Hydraulic Crane. Drawing. Mentions G. W. Armstrong. | ||
* 1882 Armstrong, Mitchell and Co launched with a capital of £1.575M. | * 1882 [[William Armstrong]] merged with [[Charles Mitchell and Co]] to form '''Armstrong, Mitchell and Co'''. The company was launched with a capital of £1.575M. | ||
* The vessel Esmerelda, a Chilean cruiser was the first fruit of a merger between William Armstrong and Charles Mitchell. | * The vessel Esmerelda, a Chilean cruiser was the first fruit of a merger between William Armstrong and Charles Mitchell. |
Revision as of 11:11, 15 September 2007
Armstrong, Mitchell and Co of Elswick-on-Tyne, Newcastle were shipbuilders 1882-1897
- 1847 William Armstrong had established a company in 1847 making hydraulic cranes.
- 1852 Armstrong's Hydraulic Crane. Drawing. Mentions G. W. Armstrong.
- 1882 William Armstrong merged with Charles Mitchell and Co to form Armstrong, Mitchell and Co. The company was launched with a capital of £1.575M.
- The vessel Esmerelda, a Chilean cruiser was the first fruit of a merger between William Armstrong and Charles Mitchell.
- He came to prominence due to the Armstrong Field Gun which was used extensively in the Crimean War. He was one of the two great armament manufacturers in the world.
- 1885 - The Low Walker yard concentrated on merchant shipbuilding especially of tankers.
- 1886 – Gluckauf was completed in July as the world’s first ocean-going tanker; designed by Henry F. Swan to carry 3500 tons of oil from America or the Black Sea to Europe.
- The Deutsch-America Petroleum Company subsequently placed orders for many sister tankers and the yard completed over 100 tankers up to the outbreak of war in 1914.
- 1894 Antwerp Exhibition. Details of extensive exhibits
- 1894 The Chilean Cruiser 'Blanco Encalada'. Full details in 'The Engineer'
- 1895 Charles Mitchell died in August of this year.
- 1898 Two Russian ice-breakers were completed with Sampo (1339/98) being fitted with hydraulic elevators for raising and lowering carriages and trucks for the different levels of the river Volga.
- 1899 Baikal (4200/99) was considered to be the most spectacular ship for the Russians. It was a train ferry and was sent overland in 7200 pieces and reassembled on the banks of Lake Baikal as part of the Trans-Siberian Railway!
- Over 35 dry-cargo liners were also ordered by German and British owners between 1880 and 1913
- The yard was willing to tackle anything that came its way including coastal passenger steamers, cable layers, large cargo ships, suction dredgers and floating cranes.
Sources of Information
- British Shipbuilding Yards. 3 vols by Norman L. Middlemiss
- The Imperial Journal 1852 Vol I. p55-57
- The Engineer of 21st September 1894 p248
- The Engineer of 14th December 1894 p503