TYNE BUILT SHIPS
A history of Tyne shipbuilders and the ships that they built
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Shipbuilder: Coulson, Cooke & Co, St Peters (1872 - 1873)
In 1871 Charles Mitchell was looking for additional capacity so he acquired a small site at St Peter's (further up-river towards Newcastle from his existing shipyard) where two of his associates John Coulson & Richard Cooke began building ships under the style of Coulson, Cooke & Company.
In 1873 this firm moved to a larger and more suitable site, some 6.5 acres in area, at the river-front of Wallsend and bordering the shipyard of Schlesinger, Davis & Company which had been opened in Wallsend Parish in 1863.
For further details about this move, see Wallsend Yard.
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