William Doxford & Sons

William Doxford & Sons was a British shipbuilding firm founded in 1840. It is often referred to as just Doxford before being acquired by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company in 1918.

Shipbuilding

Ship	Type	Launched	Fate
H.M.S. Cygnet	gunboat	30 May, 1874	Broken up 1889
H.M.S. Express	gunboat	16 Jul, 1874	Sold 1889
H.M.S. Contest	gunboat	29 Aug, 1874	Broken up 1889
H.M.S. Opal	corvette	9 Mar, 1875	Sold 1892
H.M.S. Haughty	destroyer	18 Sep, 1895	Broken up 1912
H.M.S. Hardy	destroyer	16 Dec, 1895	Broken up 1911
H.M.S. Violet	destroyer	3 May, 1897	Broken up 1920
H.M.S. Sylvia	destroyer	3 Jul, 1897	Broken up 1919
H.M.S. Lee	destroyer	27 Jan, 1899	Wrecked 1909
H.M.S. Success	destroyer	21 Mar, 1901	Wrecked 1914
H.M.S. Opal	destroyer	11 Sep, 1915
H.M.S. Mantis	gunboat	14 Sep, 1915	Sold 20 Jan, 1940
H.M.S. Moth	gunboat	15 Sep, 1915	Scuttled 21 Dec, 1941
H.M.S. Ophelia	destroyer	13 Oct, 1915
H.M.S. Opportune	destroyer	20 Nov, 1915
H.M.S. Oracle	destroyer	23 Dec, 1915
H.M.S. Orestes	destroyer	21 Mar, 1916
H.M.S. Orford	destroyer	19 Apr, 1916
H.M.S. Orpheus	destroyer	17 Jun, 1916
H.M.S. Octavia	destroyer	21 Jun, 1916
H.M.S. Norseman	destroyer	15 Aug, 1916
H.M.S. Oberon	destroyer	29 Sep, 1916
H.M.S. Redoubt	destroyer	28 Oct, 1916	13 Jul, 1926
H.M.S. Recruit	destroyer	9 Dec, 1916	Mined 9 Aug, 1917
H.M.S. Ulysses	destroyer	24 Mar, 1917	Collision 29 Oct, 1918
H.M.S. Umpire	destroyer	9 Jun, 1917	7 Jan, 1930
H.M.S. Vega	destroyer	1 Sep, 1917
H.M.S. Velox	destroyer	17 Nov, 1917
H.M.S. Walpole	destroyer	12 Feb, 1918	8 Feb, 1945
H.M.S. Whitley	destroyer	13 Apr, 1918	Bombed 19 May, 1940
H.M.S. Success	destroyer	29 Jun, 1918
H.M.S. Shamrock	destroyer	26 Aug, 1918	Handed over
H.M.S. Shikari	destroyer	14 Jul, 1919

During February and March of 1889, Doxford ran a series of successful trials of an oil-burning torpedo boat at Portsmouth. Both the torpedo boat and her engines were built by the company.

See Also

• Wikipedia