Launch pictures of ships from the River Wear. We were the biggest shipbuilding town in the World !!. Please come and visit my Facebook page, Sunderland Tugs and Shipbuilding in pictures.
My father, a marine engineer went to junior technical school in Sunderland, went to sea as a merchant navy engineer, and was dive bombed by Dornier aircraft off the coast of Wales and then had another two ships he sailed in torpedoed and sunk. Dad came back after the war to the shipyards in Sunderland, helping to build up the war torn U.K. and where he worked in making the great Sulzer engines. Shipbuilding went to countries like India because the trade unions demanded and got unsustainable wage increases for their members and the U.K. also decreased their shipbuilding capacity to join the E.U. and Sunderland has never really prospered since!
You are absolutely right,the UK steel industry was also sold out by the entire political class via covert little deals behind closed doors with the E U. Deliberate deindustrialization! These political whores who speak with a forked tongue are no friend of England! All those men and women who fought in two W W's also completely sold down the river!
Great footage of a bygone era, the yard certainly built a wide variety of vessels for both British and overseas customers. Didn't know they built some of the "D" class Shell Tankers, nice to see DAPHNELLA. Bank Line had some of the most majestic freighters, I remember them picking up copra from Tarawa (Kiribati) and Honiara (Solomon Islands) in the early 1980's when I was there. Cracking video, the seven minutes went so quick, thank you Anthony, much appreciated and enjoyed.
well what a surprise watching this, first ship the "Toronto City" I was 4th engineer for awhile. They thought I was a doxford engine specialist because of where I came from. I of course said nothing and let them continue to think that :)
No pits ,no shipyards ,no Pyrex glass works ,no Joplin’s ,no Liverpool house ,no Binns absolutely a Disaster totally man made ,ps even Jolly’s buses have gone!
