Thames Ironworks, Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThames 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
Ship | Type | Launched | Fate |
H.M.S. Warrior | armoured frigate | 29 Dec, 1860 | Museum Ship 1979 |
H.M.S. Waterwitch | armoured gunboat | 28 Jun, 1866 | Sold 1890 |
H.M.S. Serapis | iron screw troopship | 2 Sep, 1866 | Sold 23 Nov, 1894 |
S.M.S. König Wilhelm | armored frigate | 25 Apr, 1868 | Sold c. 1921 |
H.M.S. Volage | corvette | 27 Feb, 1869 | Sold |
H.M.S. Active | corvette | 13 Mar, 1869 | Sold 1906 |
H.M.S. Cyclops | coastal monitor | 18 Jul, 1871 | Sold 1903 |
H.M.S. Rover | corvette | 12 Aug, 1874 | Sold 1893 |
H.M.S. Superb | central battery ironclad | 16 Nov, 1875 | Sold 1906 |
H.M.S. Swift | gunvessel | 1879 | Sold 1902 |
H.M.S. Linnet | gunvessel | 1880 | Sold 1904 |
H.M.S. Benbow | second class battleship | 15 Jun, 1885 | Sold 13 Jul, 1909 |
H.M.S. Sans Pareil | second class battleship | 9 May, 1887 | Sold 9 Apr, 1907 |
H.M.S. Blenheim | first class protected cruiser | 5 Jul, 1890 | Sold 13 Jul, 1926 |
H.M.S. Grafton | first class protected cruiser | 30 Jan, 1892 | Sold 1 Jul, 1920 |
H.M.S. Theseus | first class protected cruiser | 8 Sep, 1892 | Sold 1921 |
H.M.S. Zebra | destroyer | 3 Dec, 1895 | Broken up 1914 |
H.M.S. Albion | pre-dreadnought | 21 Jun, 1898 | Sold 11 Dec, 1919 |
H.M.S. Duncan | pre-dreadnought | 21 Mar, 1901 | Sold 18 Feb, 1920 |
H.M.S. Cornwallis | pre-dreadnought | 13 Jul, 1901 | Torpedoed 9 Jan, 1917 |
H.M.S. Black Prince | armoured cruiser | 8 Nov, 1904 | Sunk 31 May, 1916 |
H.M.S. Nautilus | destroyer | 30 Mar, 1910 | Sep, 1920 |
H.M.S. Thunderer | dreadnought | 1 Feb, 1911 | Sold 17 Dec, 1926 |
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
Bibliography
- Burt, R. A. (1986). British Battleships of World War One. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).