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Shipbuilder: Cammell Laird (Tyneside) Ltd, Hebburn (1999 - 2001)


On the 20th of August 1998 Cammell Laird Ltd of Liverpool announced that they had purchased Tyne Tees Dockyard Ltd, with a view to continuing the successful ship repair and conversion business and also returning the Hebburn complex back to shipbuilding. A number of conversion contracts were undertaken and the former Hawthorn Leslie dry dock, known as No 3 Dock, was refurbished and used as a shipbuilding dock for the small ferry LEKA.
However, in April 2001 the company was forced to enter receivership, after experiencing financial difficulties which were partly due to the late withdrawal by Costa Crociere from a £50 million refit contract for the COSTA CLASSICA cruise ship. The Birkenhead yard had already constructed a new mid-body section to be inserted into the cruise ship when the contract was cancelled.
Later in 2001 the Birkenhead, Teesside and Tyneside shipyards owned by the former Cammell Laird shiprepair company were acquired by the A&P Shiprepair Group.

Yd No Year Ship Name D / H / P
1999 Dock Gate - Hebburn P
2001 Leka D / H / P