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The Millwall Iron Works, London, England, was a 19th-century industrial complex and series of companies, which developed from 1824. Formed from a series of small shipbuilding companies to address the need to build larger and larger ships, the holding company collapsed after the Panic of 1866 which greatly reduced shipbuilding in London. Subsequently, a recovery was made by a series of smaller companies, but by the later 19th century the location was too small for the building of ships on the scale then required. Most of its buildings, being near the apex of the peninsula in the Isle of Dogs, survived the Blitz and have been made into apartment blocks in a residential estate, Burrells Wharf.

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Millwall Iron Works

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The Millwall Iron Works, London, England, was a 19th-century industrial complex and series of companies, which developed from 1824. Formed from a series...

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Burrells Wharf

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By the 19th century Millwall Iron Works had been built on this land. From 1855 to 1858 Sir William Fairbairn built early iron ships here and undertook...

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SS Great Eastern

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iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall Iron...

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RMS Rhone

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created a need for new ships. In June 1863 RMSP ordered Rhone from the Millwall Iron Works on the Isle of Dogs, London and her sister ship Douro from Caird...

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Tubular bridge

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character". One-sixth scale models, 78 ft long, were built at Fairbairn's Millwall Iron Works and tested with increasing loads. By this means, although at an experimental...

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Panic of 1866

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reform bill. The Panic decimated shipbuilding in London, and the Millwall Iron Works holding company collapsed. Less than 17% of the joint-stock banks...

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Port of London

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Britain (for example at Blackwall Yard, London Yard, Samuda Yard, Millwall Iron Works, Thames Ironworks, Greenwich, and Deptford and Woolwich dockyards)...

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Ironworks

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An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and...

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Nathaniel Fenner

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India Dock Company's Timber Pond. Following the insolvency of the Millwall Iron Works, Ship Building & Graving Docks Company, the Fenner's took over the...

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Metal production in Ukraine

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Roman and Byzantine cities until the 6th century AD. In 1868, the Millwall Iron Works Company received an order from the Imperial Russian Government for...

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List of large sailing vessels

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tons warship HMS Northumberland 1868 H Millwall Iron Works 407 ft (124 m) 59 ft 6 in (18.1 m) 5-mast wood/iron 32,377 sq ft (3,007.9 m2) 6,631 tons burthen...

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John Scott Russell

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by Caird, he decided to move to London and in 1848 purchased the Millwall Iron Works shipbuilding company. He built two ships for Brunel for the Australia...

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List of locations in the Port of London

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Wharf site of Napier Yard and Millwall Iron Works Venesta Wharf Burrell's Wharf (site of Burrell's & Co's paint works) Maconochie's Wharf Nelson Wharf...

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List of ship launches in 1865

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"Launch of Another Iron Ship in Preston". Preston Chronicle. No. 2832. London. 14 October 1865. "Double Launch at Millwall Iron Works". Hampshire/Portsmouth...

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William Eassie

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forging scrap iron to manufacture ship anchors and other components, and developing a piling machine to work at the Millwall Iron Works in London where...

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List of ship launches in 1866

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"Local News". Liverpool Mercury. No. 5593. Liverpool. 2 January 1866. "Iron Ship-building at Liverpool". Daily News. No. 6136. London. 4 January 1866...

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List of patrol vessels of the Ottoman steam navy

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Commissioned Decommissioned Afterward Fuad Millwall Iron Works, London LPP 76.2m, B 9.1m, D 3.6m 1075t, Iron 17.7kts (trial) 130 Steam, side paddle 2,...

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William Fairbairn

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more than 400 at Millwall for companies such as the Great Western Railway and the London and North Western Railway. However, as the works had no rail access...

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Consett

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Hotspur and Sheffield Wednesday, then manager of Charlton Athletic and Millwall John Stirk (born 1955), professional footballer born in Consett Mathew...

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Stratford Works

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Stratford Works was the locomotive-building works of the Great Eastern Railway situated at Stratford, London, England. The original site of the works was located...

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