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The Wivenhoe Encyclopedia |
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The Shipbuilders who operated at the upstream Wivenhoe Shipyard |
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| 1528 | John Gylot |
| 1541 | William Porter |
| 1544 | Henry Spyney |
| 1546 | John Chapman |
| 1558 | Thomas Craft |
| 1597 | Thomas Croftes |
| 1615 | William Patrick |
| 1650 | Robert and John Page |
| 1697 | William Barnsley |
| 1723 | William King |
| 1734 | Austin Stanley |
| 1746 | John Davis |
| 1750 | John Iffe |
| 1760 | George Wyatt |
| 1780 | Moses Game |
| 1800 | William Hawkins |
| 1801 | Joseph Cole |
| 1804 | Philip J., Philip M., & Robert Sainty |
| 1815 | Daniel Cole |
| 1832 | Thomas Harvey |
| 1860 | John Harvey |
| 1882 | Edwin Wilkins |
| 1888 | Forrestt & Sons (1904 – Forrestt & Sons Ltd and later Forrestt & Co.Ltd) Company originally established in 1788 to build ships, boats and yachts at Norway Yard at Limehouse on the River Thames, near London. They built the dry dock at Wivenhoe in 1889. |
| 1912 | Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering & Drydock Co.Ltd |
| 1920 | Rennie Ritchie & Newport Shipbuilding Co. Ltd |
| 1925 | Otto Anderson & Co (London) Ltd |
| 1927 | Arthur R. Brown |
| 1930 | Shipbuilders Securities Ltd |
| 1939 | Wivenhoe Shipyard Ltd (NB associated with Rowhedge Ironworks) |
| 1960 | Whitehead Engineering Ltd (marine outdrives) |
| 1964 | Then for timber wharfage: Merediths |
| 1980 | Chelmer Cargo Services |
| 1981 | Wivenhoe Port Ltd |
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Information supplied by Bill Ellis |
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Layout of the Shipyard circa 1903 |