Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company information
Former shipbuilders in London
Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Limited
Industry
Shipbuilding
Founded
1837
Defunct
1912
Fate
Defunct
Headquarters
London
Warships being built at the eastern site in or slightly before 1902
The Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Limited was a shipyard and iron works straddling the mouth of Bow Creek at its confluence with the River Thames, at Leamouth Wharf[1] (often referred to as Blackwall) on the west side and at Canning Town on the east side. Its main activity was shipbuilding, but it also diversified into civil engineering, marine engines, cranes, electrical engineering and motor cars.[2]
The company notably produced iron work for Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar in the 1850s,[2] and the world's first all-iron warship, HMS Warrior, launched in 1860.
^Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44, Leamouth Wharf edited by Hermione Hobhouse, 1994
^ abJim Lewis 1999, London's Lea Valley, Phillimore, ISBN 1-86077-100-9
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