Flashback - Beverley Shipyards

     
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Friday, February 15, 2013
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  • Beverley Shipyards - Shipwrights at work in April. 1947.
  • Beverley Shipyards - Foreman Mr George Powrie and others cut out templates in wood (which will be used by platers) in the mould loft at Beverley Ship yard. Taken June, 1958.
  • Beverley Shipyards - St. Gerontius being launched at Beverley into the River Hull dated 28 September 1961. It was built for Thomas Hamling & Co.
  • Beverley Shipyards - The Prince Philip is launched at Beverley shipyard. Dated 5 November 1948.
  • Beverley Shipyards - The trawler Ella Hewitt launched at Beverley into the River Hull on December 4, 1963.
  • Beverley Shipyards - . Manual workers in Beverley shipyard c1910
  • Beverley Shipyards - Scene in 2009 - Views looking along the River Hull, near to the Grovehill Road bridge at Beverley, East Yorkshire.
  • Beverley Shipyards - Trade union representatives waiting at the Beverley shipyard for their meeting with the Receiver in September 1975.
  • Beverley Shipyards - No date - Work underway on the hull's of the tugs at Beverley shipyard
  • Beverley Shipyards - Famous author Hammond Innes and wife wife Dorothy, left, at Beverley shipyard in May, 1972 to watch the launch of the trawler bearing his name. With them are Mr H R Brookman, chairman and managing director of Charles D Holmes and Co, and Mrs N Nowell, right, who named the vessel.
  • Beverley Shipyards - Beverley-built tug Roysterer at the shipyard of Charles D Holmes in 1970. The 178ft vessel was the biggest and most powerful tug built for the Royal Navy.
  • Beverley Shipyards - . A picture from August 1933 taken at Cook Welton and Gemmell’s Beverley shipyard and showing the trawler St Amandus on her launch. The vessel was built for Thomas Hamling and Co. In August 1939 she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy as an anti-submarine vessel, later transferring to the French Navy as a patrol vessel and being given the name La Nantaise
  • Beverley Shipyards - . Broadside launch of the Beverley built trawler Wyre Victory at Beverley ship yard in 1960.
  • Beverley Shipyards - Beverley ship yard, a first plate is hoisted by a crane in April 1963
  • Beverley Shipyards - Vessels built at Beverley yard of Phoenix Shipbuilders Ltd., two 26 metre tugs and one 49 metre ramped transport ferry destined for Saudi Arabia. Taken March 1977
  • Beverley Shipyards - . Laying keels at the Beverley ship yard to meet a new order for four tugs and two transport ferries for Saudi Arabia. The former Drypool Group shipyard was taken over a month ago by Whitby Shipyard Ltd. Taken July 1976
  • Beverley Shipyards - The keels of vessels being built at Beverley Shipyard by the Whitby Shipbuilding Company are seen here in July 1976. The ships were being built for the port authority in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  • Beverley Shipyards - READY TO SAIL. St Matthew (H284) is seen here in St Andrew’s Dock in October 1951. An oil fired steam trawler, she was built at Beverley and launched in May 1946. Built for St Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co, of Hull she was sold by them to a Canadian company in 1951, but came back to Hull in 1955 to the original owners
  • Beverley Shipyards - The trawler Thorina, built in Beverley and was used in the 1970s James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. Portrayed a spy trawler which was sank.

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    by LittleHobbit

    Friday, February 15 2013, 10:44PM

    “I'd like to see a trawler get down the river Hull, be lucky to get a rowing boat down there now. Lovely old snaps.”

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    by AlanRobinson

    Friday, February 15 2013, 6:15PM

    “Those three posing in the mold loft in suits and ties were not loftsmen! We never wore ties while we crawled about the floor hammering, planing, marking and sawing.

    I remember Cook Welton and Gemmell as a hull-building yard, not a comprehensive shipyard. The hull and superstructure would be fitted out in Hull, including the main engine and boilers. The River Hull restricted the length, breadth and draught of vessels that could be built in Beverley.

    Very nice steelwork though. Oh, and by the way, getting an apprenticeship was almost impossible without family connections.”

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    by AdPotentia

    Friday, February 15 2013, 4:03PM

    “I remember Hammond Innes being launched. St Nicks primary school hotfooted it down there and stood on Weel road bridge just in time to see it launched.”

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