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William Doxford & Sons

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yard was built which could build two ships of up to 30,000 tons deadweight side-by-side. The steel came in at one end, and the completed ship left from the other with engines installed and sometimes with the machinery running.
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The engine shop at Doxford's shipyard during the Second World War: the diesel engine of a merchant ship is undergoing tests.
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shipbuilder. It also made marine diesel engines, the last of which it built in 1980.
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William Doxford founded the company in 1840. From 1870 it was based in
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William Doxford & Sons' shipyard and engine works, River Wear 1967
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Modern timeline of British shipbuilding companies, 1960–present
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page on Ships Nostalgia website. Membership (free) is required.
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British shipbuilding company and maker of marine diesel engines
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Doxford & Sunderland Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
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Private
Shipbuilding
A&P Group
Sunderland
UK
British
shipbuilding
marine engineering

Pallion
Sunderland
River Wear
Northeast England
Northumberland Shipbuilding Company
Court Line

Pallion
nationalised
privatised
Austin & Pickersgill
North East Shipbuilders
marine engine

British
List of shipbuilders and shipyards
Turret deck ship
HMS Opal (1875)
HMS Opal (1915)
Badagry Palm (1979)

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