James John Paul Philip Laing South Shields

The Scottish Laing family, John Laing and his son David, commenced shipbuilding in Sunderland at North Sands in 1793. John was also joined by his brother Philip, a yeoman farmer from Fifeshire. By 1804 Laing was the largest shipbuilding employer on the Wear.
The partners set up in business at South Shields in 1805 as Messrs John Laing & Co using an existing dock next to the dock and yard of Mr Fairles (marked as Young's Dock on the map of 1855).
The partnership was dissolved in 1822 and Philip set up at the Lawe with a "patent slipway near the sea". This was probably a piece of ground near the Low Beacon.


27/10/1832	Sale of "All that convenient Patent Slipway with the necessary machinery at the Lawe, East End of South Shields, as occupied by J Laing & Co, 567ft in length. Also buildings to the west of the same. Apply to Mr Philip Laing at South Shields."

Year	Ship Name	D / H / P

1807	James
1807	Plantagenet
1809	Monmouth
1811	Guadiana
1812	Royal Oak
1813	Borodino
1813	Pilot
1813	Pyrenees	D / H
1814	Castlereagh	D / H
1814	Lord Niddry
1814	Peter Ellis
1815	Eastermount
1815	Lycurgus
1815	Solon
1816	Albion	D / H
1817	Iphigenia
1817	Isabellas
1817	Minstrel
1818	Alliance
1818	Aquatic
1818	Granicus
1819	Carnation	D / H
1819	Cherub
1819	Palambam
1819	Pursuit
1820	Hambletonian
1821	Bellissma
1821	Courier	D / H
1821	Samuel & Sarah	D / H
1822	Montrose
1823	Britannia	D / H
1823	Leander	D / H
1823	Malvina	D / H
1824	Carnation
1824	Corinthian	D / H
1825	Africanus
1825	Fifeshire
1825	Sarah
1825	Vesta
1826	Troughton
1827	Clorinda
1827	Daphne
1827	Elbe
1827	Elvira
1827	Pegasus	D / H
1828	Premier
1828	Tancred	D / H
1829	Jane	D / H
1830	Alonzo	D / H
1830	Vicissitude	D / H
1831	Gondolier
1831	Vistula	D / H
1843	Hydrabad	D / H
1845	Sea Park	D / H
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