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Shipbuilder: Campbell, MacIntosh & Bowstead, Scotswood (1881 - 1885)

Shipbuilder: Campbell & Bowstead & Co, Scotswood (1886 - 1886)

Above map showing the location of the yard at Scotswood is dated 1894 and is copyright of Ordnance Survey

The shipyard covered about 8 acres immediately due east of the Scotswood Bridge. A yard at this location was only possible because the low arched bridge connecting Newcastle to Gateshead was demolished in 1868 and replaced by Armstrong's swing bridge in 1876. In 1885 the partners in the firm were seen as CJ Bowstead of Riding Mill and John McLeod Campbell of Scotswood House. Campbell had been the joint manager of Caird & Co's shipbuilding yard at Greenock and Mackintosh served his time at the Rankine & Blackmore engine works at Greenock & then worked with Palmers on the Tyne as a draughtsman or designer. They employed nearly 600 men at the launch of their first vessel and with expectations to increase that number by a further 200. The yard ran out of work in 1885 during a period of extensive depression in the UK and was unable to open up again. On the closure of the firm JM Campbell joined Robert Stephenson & Co as Yard Manager at Hebburn and the site was then taken over by the Scotswood Shipbuilding Company in 1890.
Above information is courtesy of Tyne Shipyards by Ron French


Yd No Year Ship Name D / H / P
1 1881 Tancarville D / H
2 1882 Borneo D / H
3 1882 Yeoman D / H / P
4 1882 Ascalon D / H
5 1882 Galveston D / H
6 1882 Normanton D / H
7 1883 Regal D / H
8 1883 Anglo-Indian D / H
9 1883 Sindbad D / H
10 1883 Tenterden D / H / P
11 1883 Tiverton D / H / P
12 1884 Regius D / H
13 1883 Saint Asaph D / H
14 1884 Danehill D / H / P
15 1884 Cowden Law D / H
16 1885 Mootiya
17 1885 Melati D / H
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