Shipbuilders of the Thames and Medway

Notes:

Structured in four parts: 1] 'Rise and fall of an industry' - 'Tudor triumph' / 'Stuart and Commonwealth achievement' / 'The age of war' / 'Raw materials' / 'Trading and revolution' / 'Decline'; 2] 'The Royal Dockyards' - Deptford / Woolwich / Chatham / Sheerness; 3] 'Private shipyards of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' - Barnard / John & Robert Batson / The Blackwall Yard / Josiah & Thomas Brindley / Dudman / Hill & Mellish / Thomas Pitcher & Sons / Randall & Brent / Stalkartt / Wells / Other yards; 4] 'Private shipyards and engine builders, 1815 onwards' - James Ash & Co / Bilbe & Perry / Cox & Curling / Ditchburn & Mare / J & W Dudgeon / William Fairbairn / Fletcher & Fearnall / T & W Forrestt / Gordon & Co / R & H Green / Humphrys, Tennant & Dykes Ltd / Charles Lingley / C J Mare & Co / Maudslay Sons & Field / Miller & Barnes / Millwall Ironworks & Shipbuilding Co / J & F Napier / National Company for Boatbuilding by Machinery Ltd / John Penn & Sons / W & H Pitcher / J & G Rennie / John Scott Russell & Co / Samuda Brothers / Searle & Godfrey / Seaward & Capel / The State barge builders / John Stewart & Sons Ltd / The Thames barge builders / Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Co Ltd / Thames Ironworks (boatbuilding sectioon)/ John I Thornycroft & Co Ltd / William Walker / Westwood & Baillie / Money Wigram & Sons / Henry Wimshurst / Yarrow & Co Ltd