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  • Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company Ltd was formerly an independent company, located on the River Tyne at Point Pleasant, near Wallsend, Tyne & Wear...
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    musical The Last Ship by Sting is set in the shipyard. The former Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company Shipyard continues to operate, constructing offshore...
    20 KB (2,071 words) - 22:25, 28 April 2024
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    four-crank, quadruple expansion engines, built by the Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company, Ltd. of Wallsend, England with cylinders of: 26 in (0.66 m), 37 in...
    40 KB (4,448 words) - 14:50, 18 June 2024
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    was powered by triple-expansion compound steam engines, built by the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, which gave her a top speed of 11 knots (20 km/h;...
    10 KB (846 words) - 18:58, 22 July 2023
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    Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne (b) The Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne 5 November 1953 29 September 1954...
    16 KB (1,092 words) - 10:08, 6 May 2024
  • town of Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England, lying between the town centre and the River Tyne. The historic area was once the home of Wallsend Slipway & Engineering...
    2 KB (228 words) - 04:49, 8 June 2023
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    propellers via double reduction gearing. The turbines were made by the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, Newcastle upon Tyne. In addition to her passenger...
    17 KB (1,764 words) - 18:34, 7 June 2024
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    of Wallsend-on-Tyne, John I. Thornycroft & Company of Southampton, Yarrows of Glasgow, and the Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company, Wallsend-on-Tyne...
    40 KB (4,748 words) - 19:56, 29 December 2023
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    ship's female passengers. "The Latest Cunarder – Launch of the Laconia at Wallsend". International Marine Engineering. 34 (September). Marine Engineering...
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    cargo. Her original tonnages were 14,430 GRT, 8,034 NRT and 9,630 DWT. Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company built her two Parsons steam turbines, which between...
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    world. Also in 1903, the Company took a controlling interest in the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, which was an early licensed manufacturer of...
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    Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson on the Tyne and engined by the Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company. She was laid down on 29 September 1945; launched...
    20 KB (2,506 words) - 14:25, 9 May 2024
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    to Vickers-Armstrongs, and George Clark of Sunderland (after WW2), Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co (c1925) in the United Kingdom; to Busch-Sulzer in...
    14 KB (1,954 words) - 01:41, 5 December 2023
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    Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne (b) The Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne (steam turbines) (b) Parsons Marine Turbines Co Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne...
    70 KB (4,576 words) - 22:36, 28 March 2024
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    equipped with triple expansion steam engines, which were built by the Wallsend Slipway Co Ltd. These drove twin screw propellers and could propel the ship...
    9 KB (879 words) - 19:11, 12 April 2024
  • John Scott (footballer, born 1890) (category Wallsend Slipway F.C. players)
    birth Wallsend, England Height 5 ft 11+1⁄2 in (1.82 m) Position(s) Outside left Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 1909–1910 Wallsend Slipway 1910–1913...
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    Richardson Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne (b) The Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne (b) Parsons Marine Turbines Co Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne. 23...
    28 KB (2,379 words) - 15:56, 23 February 2024
  • Wallsend (later renamed Swan Hunter) - also incorporating John Readhead & Sons, South Shields, Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company, Wallsend and...
    11 KB (1,132 words) - 00:59, 17 October 2023
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    Wallsend (later renamed Swan Hunter) – also incorporating John Readhead & Sons, South Shields and Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company, Wallsend Vickers...
    12 KB (1,112 words) - 15:15, 10 May 2024
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    screw, driven by a three-cylinder triple expansion engine built by the Wallsend Slipway Company. She had five single-ended boilers, which supplied steam to...
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