Thames Ironworks, Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

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Thames Ironworks was a British shipbuilder from the early 1800s with its yard at Blackwall..

Laird's began with warship construction in the 1840s and was a leader in large vessels by 1885. Their primary yard was at Birkenhead.[1]

Shipbuilding

Constructed Warrior in 1859. Its last major warship was Thunderer when it faced liquidation in 1912, thus ending major construction on the Thames.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Burt. British Battleships of World War One. p. 9.
  2. ↑ Burt. British Battleships of World War One. p. 9.

Bibliography

  • Burt, R A (2012). British Battleships of World War One. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781591140535. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).

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