Rise and Demise

Rise and Demise

In November 2006, after the failure to complete RFA Lyme Bay within budget and effective exclusion from other Royal Navy shipbuilding projects, Jaap Kroese announced that the business was effectively finished and sold the Wallsend Yard’s iconic cranes, and was actively looking for a buyer to dispose of the land. In April 2007, Swan Hunter was acquired by Bharati Shipyards, India’s second largest private sector shipbuilder. The entire plant machinery and equipment from Swan Hunter will be dismantled and brought to India over six months to be re-built at Bharati Shipyards.
Swan & Hunter was formed in 1880. In 1903, it merged with Wigham Richardson (founded by John Wigham Richardson as Neptune Works in 1860), specifically to bid for the prestigious contract to build the Mauretania on behalf of Cunard. Their bid was successful, and the new company, Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd, went on to build what was to become, in its day, the most famous ocean going liner in the world. RMS Mauretania was launched from Wallsend on Tyne on 20 September 1906 to the cheers of huge crowds. She left service in 1935…...........farewell Swans

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