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Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson was the biggest working yard on the river for some years. At one period all the yards from Wallsend to Walker belonged to 'Swan's'. Finally the Wallsend Yard was all that was left. It closed once in 1993, and finally in 2007. The Yard was sold to North Tyneside Council in 2009 and now is an 'enterprise zone' |
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| Main building | Entrance | Segedunum | 1993 | Red Cranes | Dismantling begins |
Last look at the Red cranes |
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| Work begins | Titan | All aboard? |
Ready to go |
Empty dock | And finally .. | .. or perhaps not? |
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In 2016, Swan Hunter was relaunched into the subsea industry by Gerard Kroese, the eldest son of former owner Jaap Kroese. Swan Hunter started to offer specialist equipment, design, engineering & project management services to the offshore renewables and subsea oil & gas energy markets. |
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| Reborn for the 21st century | ||||||