Campbell MacIntosh Bowstead Shipbuilders Scotswood

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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