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Blyth Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co Ltd

Other Business Names:

  • Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co Ltd
  • Cowpen Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co Ltd
  • Mollers (Hong Kong) Ltd

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Blyth, Northumberland, Northumberland, North East, England

Sectors:

  • Transport equipment production Shipbuilding & repairing exc small craft

Notes:

Established 1937 to acquire shipbuilding and dry dock facilities which had formerly been owned by, inter alia, Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co Ltd, incorporated 1883, and, later, Cowpen Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Co Ltd. As such built cargo liners, tramp ships, etc. By 1947 owned by Mollers (Hong Kong) Ltd when focused on tanker building. Closed c1967

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