Alf Jefferies worked in Wivenhoe Shipyard on HM Coastal Minesweeper ‘Calton' and was invited to the dinner to mark her launching
One of a 100 coastal minesweepeers ordered after WW2
Ship launches at that time were big social occasions
Otto Andersen produced these to promote his Yard in the late 1920s
And its connections with Wivenhoe
The former Wivenhoe Shipyard site was sold for housing in the 1990s
Made in 1979 and now in the Nottage Maritime Institute
Dorman and Long construction at Wivenhoe which started in December 1943
Memories of Midshipman Tim Sherwen who served on HMS Santon in 1957/58
A fatal accident in the construction of one of the Mulberry Harbour sections
Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd was formed to take over the old Forrestt shipyard which had lain unused since 1936.
The Beginning, wooden submarines
