shiplaunches

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Preparing Inishowen Head for launch

  • Dave Forbes said:
    Just as a matter of interest , what was the very last ship to be launched on the Wear?
  • Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:
    Hi Dave Forbes, I believe the last ship launched on the Wear was the ferry Superflex November. She was launched on 12 December 1988 at the Southwick shipyard of North East Shipbuilders.

Launch of the ferry ‘Superflex Bravo’

  • Dave Forbes said:
    Now the Danish Mercandia V111 - IMO 8611623 Was she the last ship built on the Wear?

Christmas message from the workers

  • optimal chicken said:
    The photo shows the staggering engineering which went into making ships. Each rivet needed a hole drilled to accomodate it. Then red hot rivets were shoved in and flattened over. That's aside from the actual cutting and shaping of each plate - every single one was different. All that but before they could do it they had to melt steel to make sheet. To make steel they had to mine ores and fuels.. The process of ship building is an incredible story from start to finish.