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Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd

  • 'Calton' Dinner menus + Photo's by Alf Jefferies

    'Calton' Dinner menus + Photo's by Alf Jefferies

    Alf Jefferies worked in Wivenhoe Shipyard on HM Coastal Minesweeper ‘Calton' and was invited to the dinner to mark her launching
  • A Dinner in 1953 to celebrate the launching of the Calton

    A Dinner in 1953 to celebrate the launching of the Calton

    One of a 100 coastal minesweepeers ordered after WW2
  • A ship launch at Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943

    A ship launch at Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943

    Ship launches at that time were big social occasions
  • A useful notebook to promote Wivenhoe Shipyard

    A useful notebook to promote Wivenhoe Shipyard

    Otto Andersen produced these to promote his Yard in the late 1920s
  • About the boats Tern and the Cap Pilar

    About the boats Tern and the Cap Pilar

    An article written by Bill Ellis for Wivenhoe News in 2004
  • About The Rowhedge Ironworks Ltd

    About The Rowhedge Ironworks Ltd

    And its connections with Wivenhoe
  • About Wivenhoe Old Quay and the Wivenhoe Shipyard

    About Wivenhoe Old Quay and the Wivenhoe Shipyard

    The former Wivenhoe Shipyard site was sold for housing in the 1990s
  • Fred Downing's model Thames Sailing Barge

    Fred Downing's model Thames Sailing Barge

    Made in 1979 and now in the Nottage Maritime Institute
  • Mulberry Harbours - Section types built at Wivenhoe for the D-Day landings

    Mulberry Harbours - Section types built at Wivenhoe for the D-Day landings

    Dorman and Long construction at Wivenhoe which started in December 1943
  • Recalling 1940 at Wivenhoe Shipyard

    Recalling 1940 at Wivenhoe Shipyard

    Memories of Peter Simons, a Ship's Draughtsman
  • Sea-change: Wivenhoe Remembered - Shipyards

    Sea-change: Wivenhoe Remembered - Shipyards

    The Wivenhoe shipyards and people's lives working in them
  • Service in a Ton Class Minesweeper 1957

    Service in a Ton Class Minesweeper 1957

    Memories of Midshipman Tim Sherwen who served on HMS Santon in 1957/58
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard

    Wivenhoe Shipyard

    West Street, Wivenhoe
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard - Mulberry Harbours

    Wivenhoe Shipyard - Mulberry Harbours

    A fatal accident in the construction of one of the Mulberry Harbour sections
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943

    Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943

    Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd was formed to take over the old Forrestt shipyard which had lain unused since 1936.
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd - Minesweepers

    Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd - Minesweepers

    The 'ton' Class
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd (1)

    Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd (1)

    The Beginning, wooden submarines
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd (2)

    Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd (2)

    Motor Minesweepers
Upstream Shipyards
  • A Plaque to Mark 200 Years of Shipbuilding at Wivenhoe
  • A ship launch at Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943
  • About Thomas and John Harvey in the 1800s
  • George Wyatt, Shipbuilder
  • Harvey's Shipyard Fire in 1872
  • Harvey's shipyard in 1878
  • Moses Game, Shipbuilder
  • Otto Magnus Andersen
  • The Boatbuilders of the 'Upstream' yard
  • Wivenhoe Shipbuilders - Moses Game
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1943
  • Rennie Forrestt
  • Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd
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