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Shipbuilder: Coulson, Cooke & Co, St Peters (1872 - 1873)

Shipbuilder: Coulson, Cooke & Co, Wallsend (1874 - 1874)

Shipbuilder: John Coulson & Co, Wallsend (1876 - 1876)

Shipbuilder: CS Swan & Co, Wallsend (1874 -1879)

Shipbuilder: CS Swan & Hunter, Wallsend (1879 - 1895)

Shipbuilder: CS Swan & Hunter Ltd, Wallsend (1896 - 1903)


Top: The West Yard. Bottom: The East Yard. Both photos taken about 1900, copyright of the Municipal Archives of Trondheim

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 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.

About a year later however, in 1874, the firm ran into financial difficulties and it became necessary for Mitchell to take over the Wallsend shipyard. This he entrusted to the management of his brother-in-law, Charles Sheridan Swan, who continued the work of the firm through mixed fortune until his untimely, accidental death in 1879. He was returning from the continent after a business trip when he fell from the bows of a paddle steamer and was struck and killed by one of the paddles. It was about this time however, that George Burton Hunter, a young Wearside shipbuilder who had earned a reputation on the North East Coast, had dissolved his partnership with a Mr SP Austin and entered into negotiations with Charles Mitchell and H F Swan. The outcome of this was a new partnership with Charles Swan's widow in the style of C S Swan & Hunter, with Hunter as managing director.

Yd No Year Ship Name D / H / P
7 1874 Count d'Aspremont D / H / P
8 1874 Active D / H
10 1874 Grasmere D / H
11 1874 Conquest D / H
12 1874 Warkworth D / H
13 1874 Colstrup D / H / P
14 1875 Whitley D / H
1876 Trio D / H
15 1875 Krutikoff (TT)
16 1875 Stelvio D / H
17 1875 Vladeimer (TT)
18 1875 Sogn D / H / P
19 1875 Goloubka (TT)
20 1875 Holmrook D / H
21 1875 Monte Moro D / H
22 1875 Active (TT) D / H / P
23 1876 Bernina D / H
24 1876 Ossian D / H
25 1877 Albula D / H
26 1877 Fernwood D / H
27 1877 Unnamed barge D / H
28 1877 Unnamed barge D / H
29 1877 Unnamed barge D / H
30 1877 Cervin D / H
31 1877 Shadwan D / H
32 1877 Indus D / H
33 1878 Bothal D / H
34 1878 Humbert D / H
35 1878 Henry Fisher D / H
36 1878 Gustav Bitter D / H
37 1878 Derwentwater D / H
38 1878 Lord Nelson D / H
39 1878 Topaze D / H
40 1879 Roscommon D / H
41 1879 Amoor D / H
42 1879 Woodhorn D / H
43 1879 Princess of Wales D / H
44 1879 Leo D / H
45 1880 Edmonton D / H
46 1880 Storm Queen D / H
47 1880 Brinkburn D / H
48 1880 Finsbury D / H
49 1880 Teddington D / H
50 1880 Annie D / H
51 1881 Saxon Prince D / H
52 1881 Gironde D / H
53 1881 Darlington D / H
54 1882 Dordogne D / H
55 1881 Broomhaugh D / H
56 1881 Cilurnum D / H
57 1881 Schaldis D / H
58 1881 Brunette D / H
59 1882 Antverpia D / H / P
60 1882 City of Newcastle D / H
61 1882 Lamport D / H
62 1882 Scaramanga D / H
63 1882 Chadwick D / H
64 1888 Citta di Roma D / H
65 1882 Brookfield D / H
66 1883 Linwood D / H
67 1882 Lutka D / H
68 1882 Klyde D / H
69 1883 Plymothian D / H / P
70 1883 Monkseaton D / H / P
71 1883 Cardiganshire D / H
72 1883 Astrion D / H
73 1883 Madonna del Carmine D / H
74 1883 Lilian D / H
75 1883 Tyneside D / H / P
76 1883 Rosebud D / H
77 1883 Soldier Prince D / H / P
78 1883 Iron Prince D / H
79 1883 Newbiggin D / H
80 1883 Freda D / H
81 1887 Antwerpen D / H / P
82 1883 Northern Star D / H
83 1884 Thropton D / H
84 1884 Chios D / H
85 1884 Newton D / H
86 1884 Darwin D / H
87 1884 Garonne D / H
88 1885 Denbighshire D / H
89 1885 Burrumbeet D / H / P
90 1885 Corangamite D / H
91 1885 Oliva D / H
92 1885 Eveline D / H / P
93 1885 Newcastle D / H / P
94 1885 Cabo Trafalgar D / H
95 1886 Saint Seiriol D / H
96 1887 Bellona D / H
97 1886 Northenden D / H
98 1886 Warrington D / H / P
99 1886 Bayley D / H
100 1887 Carmarthenshire D / H
101 1886 Horatia D / H
102 1888 Avalon D / H
103 1888 Gellivara D / H / P
104 1887 Paris D / H
105 1887 Fifeshire D / H
106 1887 Elingamite D / H / P
130 1887 New Amsterdam D / H
131 1887 Courier D / H / P
132 1888 Felbridge D / H
133 1888 Knutsford D / H
134 1889 Circassian Prince D / H / P
135 1888 Iser D / H / P
136 1888 Arbib Brothers D / H
137 1889 Caesar D / H / P
138 1889 Deramore D / H / P
139 1889 Aldersgate D / H
140 1889 Newquay D / H
141 1889 Santon D / H
142 1889 Cambridge D / H
144 1889 Kara D / H / P
145 1889 Lingfield D / H / P
146 1889 Attivita D / H
147 1889 Kriemhild D / H / P
148 1890 Moldava D / H
150 1890 Maori D / H
151 1890 Arundo D / H
152 1890 Abbeymoor D / H
153 1890 Venus D / H / P
154 1890 Madagascar D / H
155 1890 Adriana D / H
156 1890 Julia D / H
157 1890 Radnorshire D / H
158 1890 Citta di Venezia D / H
159 1890 Tosari D / H / P
160 1891 Lawang D / H / P
161 1891 Priok D / H
162 1891 Calvin D / H
163 1891 Essequebo D / H
164 1891 Nottingham D / H
165 1891 Staveley D / H / P
166 1891 Chancellor D / H
167 1891 Elginshire D / H / P
168 1891 Flottbek D / H / P
169 1891 Tyne Pontoon
170 1893 Castillian Prince D / H
171 1892 Guiana caisson
172 1891 Alpha D
173 1892 Tasmania D / H / P
174 1892 Ashdown D / H / P
175 1892 Warrimoo D / H / P
176 1892 Miowera D / H / P
177 1892 Milton Stuart D / H / P
178 1892 Oceanic D / H / P
181 1893 Zeno D / H
182 1893 Westmeath D / H / P
183 1893 Mexican Prince D / H
184 1893 Maori D / H / P
185 1894 Osborne D / H
186 1894 Linlithgow D / H
187 1894 Indralema D / H / P
188 1894 Aeolus D / H
189 1893 Cayo Mono D / H / P
190 1894 Strathisla D / H
191 1894 Repton D / H
192 1894 Musician D / H
193 1894 Beechley D / H
194 1894 Solveig D / H / P
195 1894 Newlyn D / H
196 1895 Dowgate D / H
197 1895 Saint Cuthbert D / H
198 1895 Forest Brook D / H
199 1895 Aotea D / H / P
200 1895 Westmeath D / H
202 1895 Hanseat D / H
203 1896 Balmoral D / H
204 1895 Saint Tudwal D / H / P
205 1896 Neptune D / H
206 1895 Phryne D / H / P
207 1896 Smith's Pontoon No 2 D / H
208 1896 Norham D / H
209 1896 Saint Mary D / H
210 1896 Leitrim D / H
211 1897 Ethelhilda D / H / P
212 1897 Metis D / H
213 1896 Thornley D / H
214 1897 Milwaukee D / H / P
215 1896 Mayo D / H
216 1896 Claverhill D / H
217 1896 Corcovado D / H
218 1897 Ashanti D / H / P
219 1897 Carville D / H
220 1897 Saint Leonards D / H
221 1896 Ekuro D / H
222 1897 Sorata D / H
223 1897 Manoussis D / H
224 1897 Monarch D / H / P
225 1898 Lokoja D / H / P
226 1898 Reresby D / H
227 1898 Idaho D / H
228 1898 Ultonia D / H / P
229 1898 America Maru D / H / P
230 1898 Mount Royal D / H / P
231 1897 Havana Dock D / P
232 1898 Polarstjernen D / H / P
233 1898 Cardiff Caisson
234 1898 Olimpo D / H
235 1898 Stettin Dock D / H / P
236 1898 Saint Quentin D / H
237 1898 Osborne D / H
238 1899 Milwaukee - forepart D / H
240 1899 Politician D / H / P
241 1899 Japan Caisson
242 1899 Saint Andrew D / H / P
243 1899 Newcastle D / H / P
244 1899 Newholm D / H
245 1899 Kumara D / H / P
246 1899 Lucifer D / H
247 1900 Ivernia D / H / P
248 1900 Dacia D / H / P
249 1900 Saint Dunstan D / H
250 1900 Ruth D / H / P
251 1900 Consuelo D / H / P
252 1900 Montreal D / H
253 1900 Macedonia D / H / P
254 1900 Tactician D / H / P
255 1900 Delta D / H / P
256 1900 Proteo D / H
257 1900 Callisto D / H / P
258 1901 Mystic D / H / P
259 1901 Mira D / H
260 1901 Catalone D / H / P
261 1901 Patrician D / H / P
262 1902 Bermuda Dock - AFD1 D / H / P
263 1901 Lake Manitoba D / H / P
264 1902 Lake Michigan D / H / P
265 1901 Riasan Dock D / H
266 1901 Themisto D / H / P
267 1902 Potomac D / H / P
269 1901 Mira D / H
271 1902 Japan Dock No 1 D / H
272 1902 Santa Fe D / H
273 1902 Monadnock D / H / P
274 1903 Carpathia D / H / P
275 1902 August Belmont D / H / P
276 1903 Goldmouth D / H
277 1903 Sunderland Dock D / H / P
278 1902 Japan Dock No 2 D / H
279 1902 Durban Dock No 1 D / H / P
280 1903 Petroleum D / H / P
281 1903 Princess Victoria D / H / P
282 1903 Dominion D / H
283 1903 Undine D / H
284 1903 Crosby Hall D / H
285 1903 Lillie D / H
286 1903 Canopus D / H / P
287 1903 Westmount D / H / P
288 1903 Fairmount D / H / P
289 1903 Durban Dock No 2 D / H / P
290 1904 Coal Depot No 1 D / H / P
291 1903 Knowsley Hall D / H / P
292 1903 Newmount D / H / P
293 1903 Durban Workshop D / H / P
295 1904 Matina D / H / P
296 1904 Manistee D / H
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