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67 relations: Anne Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe, ARA Punta Médanos (B-18), Atlantic Ocean, BAE Systems Maritime – Naval Ships, Barclay Curle, BBC, Bharati Defence And Infrastructure Limited, Blackwood-class frigate, Blue Riband, British Shipbuilders, Charles Mitchell (shipbuilder), Charles Sheridan Swan, Clelands Shipbuilding Company, Cunard Line, Director (business), Edward Wilshaw, England, Esso Northumbria, Franconia, G and H-class destroyer, George Burton Hunter, Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn, HMAS Choules (L100), India, J-, K- and N-class destroyer, John Readhead & Sons, John Wigham Richardson, Kvaerner Govan, Kværner, Millionaire, Nationalization, Naval architecture, Netherlands, Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, Pioneering Spirit (ship), Port Clarence, Privately held company, Privatization, River Tyne, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Royal Navy, Saga Ruby, Shipbuilding, Smiths Dock Company, South Shields, SS Atlantic Causeway, SS Atlantic Conveyor, Steam turbine, ..., Teesside, Telconia, The Independent, TSS Waterford (1912), Tyne and Wear, Type 22 frigate, Type 23 frigate, Type 42 destroyer, Type 82 destroyer, U and V-class destroyer, United Kingdom, V and W-class destroyer, Vickers-Armstrongs, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, Wallsend, Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company, Wigham Richardson. Expand index (17 more) »
Anne Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe
Anne Emily Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (née Spencer-Churchill; 14 November 1854 – 20 June 1923) was the daughter of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, who served in Conservative governments as Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
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ARA Punta Médanos (B-18)
ARA Punta Médanos (B-18) was an auxiliary ship of the Argentine Navy, a tanker built at the Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard, Wallsend, in 1950.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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BAE Systems Maritime – Naval Ships
BAE Systems Maritime – Naval Ships is a wholly owned subsidiary company of BAE Systems plc, specialising in naval surface shipbuilding and combat systems integration.
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Barclay Curle
Seawind Barclay Curle is a British shipbuilding company.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Bharati Defence And Infrastructure Limited
Bharati Defence And Infrastructure Limited (formerly Bharati Shipyard Limited) is one of the largest shipbuilding companies in India.
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Blackwood-class frigate
The Type 14 Blackwood class were a ship class of minimal "second-rate" anti-submarine warfare frigates.
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Blue Riband
The Blue Riband is an unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed.
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British Shipbuilders
British Shipbuilders Corporation (BS) was a public corporation that owned and managed the shipbuilding industry in Great Britain from 1977 through the 1980s.
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Charles Mitchell (shipbuilder)
Charles Mitchell (1820 – 22 August 1895) was a Scottish engineer from Aberdeen who founded major shipbuilding yards on the Tyne.
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Charles Sheridan Swan
Charles Sheridan Swan is the man who gave his name to Swan Hunter, a major British shipbuilder.
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Clelands Shipbuilding Company
Clelands Shipbuilding Company was a leading British shipbuilding company.
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Cunard Line
Cunard Line is a British-American cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc.
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Director (business)
A director is a person from a group of managers who leads or supervises a particular area of a company.
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Edward Wilshaw
Sir Edward Wilshaw (3 June 1879 – 3 March 1968) was a British businessman, the chairman of Cable & Wireless Communications from 1936 to 1947.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Esso Northumbria
The Esso Northumbria was the first of a series of Very Large Crude Carrier ships, built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend on Tyneside, in 1969.
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Franconia
Franconia (Franken, also called Frankenland) is a region in Germany, characterised by its culture and language, and may be roughly associated with the areas in which the East Franconian dialect group, locally referred to as fränkisch, is spoken.
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G and H-class destroyer
The G- and H-class destroyers were a group of 18 destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s.
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George Burton Hunter
Sir George Burton Hunter, KBE (19 December 1845 – 21 January 1937) was a British shipbuilder based on Tyneside.
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Hawthorn Leslie and Company
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Hebburn
Hebburn is a small town situated on the south bank of the River Tyne in North East England sandwiched between the towns of Jarrow and Gateshead and to the south of Walker.
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HMAS Choules (L100)
HMAS Choules (L100) is a that served with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) from 2006 to 2011, before being transferred to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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J-, K- and N-class destroyer
The J, K and N class was a class of 24 destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1938.
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John Readhead & Sons
John Readhead & Sons was a shipyard on the River Tyne in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England.
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John Wigham Richardson
John Wigham Richardson (7 January 1837 – 15 April 1908) was a British shipbuilder on Tyneside during the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Kvaerner Govan
Kvaerner Govan Ltd (KGL), located at Govan in Glasgow on the River Clyde, was a shipyard subsidiary formed in 1988 when the Norwegian group Kvaerner Industrier purchased the Govan Shipbuilders division of the nationalised British Shipbuilders corporation.
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Kværner
Kværner was a Norwegian engineering and construction services company that existed between 1853 and 2005.
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Millionaire
A millionaire is an individual whose net worth or wealth is equal to or exceeds one million units of currency.
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Nationalization
Nationalization (or nationalisation) is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.
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Naval architecture
Naval architecture, or naval engineering, along with automotive engineering and aerospace engineering, is an engineering discipline branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the engineering design process, shipbuilding, maintenance, and operation of marine vessels and structures.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited, often referred to simply as "Palmers", was a British shipbuilding company.
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Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company
Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based in Wallsend, North East England, on the River Tyne.
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Pioneering Spirit (ship)
Pioneering Spirit (previously named Pieter Schelte) is the world's largest construction vessel, designed for the single-lift installation and removal of large oil and gas platforms and the installation of record-weight pipelines.
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Port Clarence
Port Clarence is a small village now within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and ceremonial county of County Durham, England.
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Privately held company
A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.
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Privatization
Privatization (also spelled privatisation) is the purchase of all outstanding shares of a publicly traded company by private investors, or the sale of a state-owned enterprise to private investors.
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River Tyne
The River Tyne is a river in North East England and its length (excluding tributaries) is.
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Royal Fleet Auxiliary
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is a civilian-manned fleet owned by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence, whose purpose is to support the Royal Navy to maintain operations around the world.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Saga Ruby
MS Saga Ruby was a cruise ship that was last operated by Saga Cruises.
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Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.
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Smiths Dock Company
Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company.
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South Shields
South Shields is a coastal town at the mouth of the River Tyne, England, about downstream from Newcastle upon Tyne.
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SS Atlantic Causeway
Atlantic Causeway was a container ship, operated by Cunard, and one of the merchant vessels requisitioned by the British government to support British forces in the Falklands War in 1982.
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SS Atlantic Conveyor
Atlantic Conveyor was a British merchant navy ship, registered in Liverpool, that was requisitioned during the Falklands War.
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Steam turbine
A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.
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Teesside
Teesside is the conurbation in the north east of England around the urban centre of Middlesbrough that is primarily made up of the towns Billingham, Redcar, Stockton-on-Tees, Thornaby and surrounding settlements near the River Tees.
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Telconia
CS Telconia was an English cable ship used in the early 20th century to lay and repair submarine communications cables.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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TSS Waterford (1912)
TSS Waterford was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1912.
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Tyne and Wear
Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in the North East region of England around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear.
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Type 22 frigate
The Type 22 Broadsword class was a class of frigate built for the British Royal Navy.
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Type 23 frigate
The Type 23 frigate or Duke-class is a class of frigate built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.
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Type 42 destroyer
The Type 42 or Sheffield class, was a class of fourteen light guided missile destroyers that served in the Royal Navy.
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Type 82 destroyer
The Type 82 or Bristol-class destroyer was to have been a class of eight Royal Navy warships intended as area air-defence destroyers to replace the County-class destroyers, and to serve as escorts to the planned CVA-01 aircraft carriers.
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U and V-class destroyer
The U and V class was a class of sixteen destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1942–1943.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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V and W-class destroyer
The V and W class was an amalgam of six similar classes of destroyer built for the Royal Navy under the War Emergency Programme during the First World War and generally treated as one class.
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Vickers-Armstrongs
Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927.
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Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne
Walker is a residential suburb and electoral ward just east of the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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Wallsend
Wallsend, historically Wallsend on Tyne, is a town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, North East of England.
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Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company
Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company Ltd was formerly an independent company, located on the River Tyne at Point Pleasant, near Wallsend, Tyne & Wear, around a mile downstream from the Swan Hunter shipyard, with which it later merged.
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Wigham Richardson
The Wigham Richardson shipbuilding company was named after its founder, John Wigham Richardson (1837-1908), the son of Edward Richardson, a tanner from Newcastle upon Tyne, and Jane Wigham from Edinburgh.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Hunter
