TYNE BUILT SHIPS
A history of Tyne shipbuilders and the ships that they built
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Shipbuilder: Thomas Brown, Howdon (1840 - 1850)
Thomas Brown was born in Newcastle in 1814.
On the 12th of June 1844, Newcastle Council granted permission to Thomas Brown to laydown a slipway at East Howdon.
This slipway can be seen on the 1846 Fordyce Map.
In 1851, as a shipbuilder employing 120 men, he was reported as buying out Charles Smith and Sons at Willington Quay but he was said to have ‘been killed the same year’.
Above is an extract from Tyne Shipyard Biographies, copyright of Ron French.
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