Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd. Shipbuilders & Engineers, Wallsend Shipyard, Wallsend on Tyne photograph album

A grey/brown card covered album, lace bound. The album originally had 23 pages, but currently holds only 11 pages.

1. Page 1 – The Works of Swan, Hunter, & Wigham Richardson, Ltd, Head Office [panoramic photograph divided in 3 sections with the help of arrows drawn underneath and accompanied with description from left to right]
a) Neptune Works: S.S. Sidi Brahim and S.S. Carthage, French mail steam ships – 140-Ton floating crane – Neptune Engine Works.
b) Dry Docks Dept.
c) Wallsend Shipyard: Launch of Cunard S.S. Franconia – Bottom plating of Admiralty floating dock 33000 tons lifting capacity – S.S. Indrabarah.
[S.S. Franconia (1911) was launched 23 July 1910, which gives the date of the photograph – S.S. Sidi-Brahim (1910), Société Générale des Transports Maritimes à Vapeur; S.S. Carthage (1910), Compagnie Générale Transatlantique; S.S. Indrabarah (1910), T.B. Royden)]
2. Page 2 [Company documentation giving full description of facilities and equipment, coordinates, etc, of the Dry Docks Department – Shows a photograph of Titan, 140-ton floating crane, pride of the dockyard]
3. Page2 [Company documentation, probably the reverse of No.2 – Shows a picture (not a photograph) of a very busy Dry Dock Department with full description]
4. Page 3 [Shows a 1/2500 plan (sunprint) of Wallsend and Walker-on-Tune complex with full description – Dated September 1917]
5. Page 4 – Wallsend Shipyard [Shows a detailed plan (sunprint) of Wallsend Shipyard, dated 6 June 1917 with secret mentioned on the left top corner – Shows the docks with characteristics when available or the ship under completion if any. A table recapitulates the states of completion of the different ships and footings give availability for submarines and destroyers]
6. Page 5 – Neptune Shipyard [Analogue to No.5 – Initially dated 6 June 1917 but updated 30 July 1917 with some added ships in dockyards and alongside – Also mentioned as Secret – Neither table, nor footings in this one]
7. Page 6 – Branch Shipyard at Southwick [Analogue to No.6 but docks empty – Dated 6 June 1917 and also mentioned as Secret]
8. Page 13 – Swan, Hunter, & Wigham Richardson, Ltd –Wallsend-on-Tyne – Launch of H.M.S Coventry, light armoured [armoured cross written in pencil] cruiser, 6th July 1917 [The print actually shows 7 small photos of the ship printed on a company document, from top to bottom and left to right:
a) port bow view on slipway
b) port just off stern on slipway
c) direct at bow just before the launch with officials on a tribune
d) port just off bow during the launch
e) close view of the launching cradle
f) starboard just off bow after the launch
g) direct at stern on the slipway]
9. Page 19 – H.M. Submarines, E43 and E44 – E49 behind them [Direct at bow view of two submarines under completion, E43 having already got her hydroplanes – E43 (11/11/1915), E44 (21/2/1916) and E49 (18/9/1916)]
10. Page 20 – H.M. Submarine E43 (1915), E44 (1916), and E49 (1916) [Shows the opposite view of No.9, direct at E43’s stern – Aft hydroplanes and twin screw propeller clearly visible]
11. Page 21 – British Empress (1917), and British Admiral (1917) – Oil Tank ships of 10,050 tons deadweight [Starboard broadside view of one of these ships on the open sea – Steam tankers British Empress (1917) and British Admiral (1917) completed for British Tanker Co. Ltd]
12. Page 23 – H.M.S. Broke. June 1916, after the battle of Jutland [Striking direct at bow view of the very damaged bow of H.M.S. Broke (1914), a Flotilla Leader which crashed into H.M.S. Sparrowhawk (1912), a destroyer, on 1st June 1916 and sank her at the Battle of Jutland]

Object Details

ID: ALB1098
Type: Photograph album
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1914-1917
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 318 mm x 445 mm
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