"in British shipbuilding, the Company went on to acquire Clelands Shipbuilding Company and John Readhead & Sons in 1967. Meanwhile, Swan Hunter inherited both the Naval Yard at High Walker on the River Tyne of Vickers-Armstrongs and the Hebburn Yard of Hawthorn Leslie in 1968. In 1973 further expansion came with the purchase of Palmers Dock at Hebburn from Vickers-Armstrongs. Then in 1977, Swan Hunter Group was nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders. The former flagship of the Royal Navy, was built at Swan Hunter during this period, entering service in 1985. The Company was privatised again in 1987 but"
"steamer. His widow continued the business after Swan's death in partnership with George Hunter. Charles Sheridan Swan Charles Sheridan Swan (27 January 1831 – 26 April 1879) was a British engineer and shipbuilder who cofounded Swan Hunter. Swan was born in Longbenton, Northumberland (now North Tyneside). In 1851, he was working in the coal industry as an engineer. In 1874, he took over the management of a shipyard established in 1842 by a John Coutts and by then owned by a Dr Charles Mitchell who was married to one of his (Swan's) sisters. He only managed the yard for five"
"Swan River (Michigan) The Swan River is a river in Presque Isle County, Michigan. It originates in a swamp south of Belknap and east of Hawks. It flows generally northeast, between the Trout River and Little Trout River watersheds. The river enters the small Swan Lake, just southeast of Calcite limestone quarry, before reaching its mouth in Lake Huron, in a small bay between Adams Points and Quarry Point. The river is not navigable but provides a salmon habitat. It is annually stocked with hundreds of thousands of chinook salmon and in the 1980s was also stocked with coho salmon"
"the town of Swan River is close to the Saskatchewan boundary in west-central Manitoba. The town is situated along the Swan River which flows into Swan Lake 55 km to the north-east. Swan Lake is believed to be named for the swans that once frequented the lake, but are nowadays only seasonal visitors. Henry Kelsey became the first European explorer to visit the area in 1690. The name of the lake is first noted on a map created by Peter Fidler in 1795 and again on a French map in 1802 (as ""L du Cigne""). The first permanent European settlement"
"Charles Sheridan Swan Charles Sheridan Swan (27 January 1831 – 26 April 1879) was a British engineer and shipbuilder who cofounded Swan Hunter. Swan was born in Longbenton, Northumberland (now North Tyneside). In 1851, he was working in the coal industry as an engineer. In 1874, he took over the management of a shipyard established in 1842 by a John Coutts and by then owned by a Dr Charles Mitchell who was married to one of his (Swan's) sisters. He only managed the yard for five years as in 1879 he was killed returning from the Continent on a paddle"
"Swan River (Montana) The Swan River is a long, north-flowing river in western Montana in the United States. The river drains a long isolated valley, known as the Swan Valley, between the Swan Range on the east and the Mission Mountains to the west. On an 1884 Rand McNally map, the Swan River and Swan Lake are referred to as the Sweatinghouse River and the Sweatinghouse Lake. However, by 1895, most maps had adopted Swan, a name apparently proposed by early English hunters in the area and acknowledged by the locals, according to Ken Wolf’s 1980 Montana Magazine article “History"
"Hunter, after Captain John Hunter who was Governor of the British colony in New South Wales at that time. Between 1826 and 1836 convicts built the long Great North Road that links Sydney to the Hunter Region. Hunter River (New South Wales) The Hunter River is a major river in New South Wales, Australia. The Hunter River rises in the Liverpool Range and flows generally south and then east, reaching the Tasman Sea at Newcastle, the second largest city in New South Wales and a major harbour port. Its lower reaches form an open and trained mature wave dominated barrier"
"Swan River Logging Company The Swan River Logging Company was established in 1892 along the confluence of the Swan and Mississippi Rivers near Jacobson, Minnesota. A landing had been in use for many years, taking travelers to farmsteads and towns all along the way. The steamboats used cord wood to fuel the vessels. Seeing an opportunity, Ammi Wright and Charles Davis, loggers by trade, thought the location would be ideal for a logging base camp and railroad terminus. It was determined piers could be built, and logs dumped into the Mississippi River. The logs would then drift to the sawmills"
"catching them in the river. Swan River (Montana) The Swan River is a long, north-flowing river in western Montana in the United States. The river drains a long isolated valley, known as the Swan Valley, between the Swan Range on the east and the Mission Mountains to the west. On an 1884 Rand McNally map, the Swan River and Swan Lake are referred to as the Sweatinghouse River and the Sweatinghouse Lake. However, by 1895, most maps had adopted Swan, a name apparently proposed by early English hunters in the area and acknowledged by the locals, according to Ken Wolf’s"
"Swan Hill Swan Hill is a city in the northwest of Victoria, Australia on the Murray Valley Highway and on the south bank of the Murray River, downstream from the junction of the Loddon River. At the , Swan Hill had a population of 10,905. In the Dreamtime, Totyerguil (from the area now known as Swan Hill) ran out of spears while chasing Otchtout the cod. This chase is part of the mythology of the creation of the Murray River. Based on evidence from Coobool Creek and Kow Swamp, it appears that Aboriginal people have lived in the area for"
"and lake trout. Swan River (Michigan) The Swan River is a river in Presque Isle County, Michigan. It originates in a swamp south of Belknap and east of Hawks. It flows generally northeast, between the Trout River and Little Trout River watersheds. The river enters the small Swan Lake, just southeast of Calcite limestone quarry, before reaching its mouth in Lake Huron, in a small bay between Adams Points and Quarry Point. The river is not navigable but provides a salmon habitat. It is annually stocked with hundreds of thousands of chinook salmon and in the 1980s was also stocked"
"to hunt for agate and opal rocks at the Eagle Creek Deposits. The main industry that is located here is logging. The Fraser Lake is the Swan Capital of the world. An establishment of a fur-trading post was created by an explorer Simon Fraser in 1914. In the beginning of the 1900s, the Fraser Lake Sawmill was owned by West Fraser Timber Company Ltd. It has now gradually evolved into one of the world’s most modern sawmills. In this area, there were the Endako Molybdenum Mines; at one point it became the world's second largest Molybdenum Mine. Vanderhoof is surrounded"
"was attacked on the Yangtze River by the Communist People's Liberation Army. Also, several ""Black Swan"" sloops fought in the Korean War. The first two ships were built under the 1937 Programme, being ordered from Yarrow and Company, Scotstoun, on 1 January 1938. The second pair was built under the 1939 Programme, being ordered from Furness Shipbuilding Company on 21 June 1939. A further ten RN ships were ordered under the 1940 War Programme on 13 April 1940; however six of these (the orders placed with White of Cowes, Thornycroft at Woolston, and Swan Hunter on Tyneside for two ships"
"Hunter River (Prince Edward Island) The Hunter River, informally nicknamed the ""River Clyde"", is a Canadian river in northwestern Queens County, Prince Edward Island. From its source near Hartsville, the river flows northerly, becoming a tidal estuary at New Glasgow, an arm of Rustico Bay which gradually widens to approximately wide. It discharges into the Gulf of St Lawrence. The river's total meander length is about , with an additional of estuary. The river runs through the communities of Hunter River, New Glasgow and North Rustico. There was at one time a ferry at Hunter River and the river was"
"Swanson Bay Swanson Bay is a ghost town in British Columbia, Canada located in Graham Reach on the Inside Passage, between Princess Royal Island and the northern mainland. It was named after Captain John Swanson of the Hudson's Bay Company's steamship, the SS ""Beaver"". In 1909, one of the first sulfite pulp mills on the B.C. coast was established here, with a planing and shingle mill added later. Whalen Pulp and Paper Mills of Vancouver, also the proprietor of the pulp mill at Port Alice, operated it until 1918, when they abandoned it as unprofitable. The post office remained until"
"metal to islands along the river. In 1934, ""Swan"" and ""Parramatta"" were being towed along the river to the ship breakers when heavy weather caused the hulks to break free of their towing vessel; ""Swan"" sank, and ""Parramatta"" ran aground. The two ships were abandoned, although in 1973, the bow and stern of ""Parramatta"" were salvaged for use as memorials. ""Warrego"" was used as accommodation at Cockatoo Island. She sank at her berth, and was later demolished. ""Yarra"", ""Torrens"", and ""Huon"" were all scuttled outside Sydney Heads after being used as target ships. River-class torpedo-boat destroyer The River class was"
"Swan River, Itasca County, Minnesota Swan River is an unincorporated community in southeast Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. The community is located between Grand Rapids and Floodwood at the junction of U.S. Highway 2 (U.S. 2) and State Highway 65 (MN 65). A post office called Swan River was established in 1890 and remained in operation until 1995. The community took its name from the nearby Swan River. Swan River is located along the boundary line between Sago Township and Wawina Township. The BNSF Railway passes through the community. Nearby places include Warba, Wawina, Jacobson and Goodland. The boundary line"
"and priority vertebrate fauna species and 143 rare and priority flora species are found within the basin catchment area. Occur where the river passes through localities and towns, as well as isolated bridges at places like Alexander Bridge. It was discovered in 1827 by Captain James Stirling and named by Stirling after Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Blackwood, under whom he served as a midshipman on in 1808–1909 during the Napoleonic Wars, in the North Sea and the Mediterranean. Historically it was of considerable importance in the early days of the Swan River Colony, and more recently of importance in the ecology"
"of the Swan River ten or twelve miles above Swan Lake. In 1790 Charles Isham of the Hudson's Bay Company built Swan River House (HBC,1790-1808) one-half mile above the NWC post. About 1793 the NWC built a post between the Swan and Assiniboine in response to Marlboro House below. In 1793 Isham built Marlboro House (HBC,1793-?) on the Assiniboine near its ""elbow"" which is near the Swan River portage and the later Fort Pelly. In 1793 Cuthbert Grant of the NWC built Bird Mountain House (NWC,1793-?) 50 miles upstream at the mouth of Thunder Creek. In 1794 Isham built Somerset"
"1894, thus not only revolutionising the navies of the world, but also, through the large-scale production of affordable electricity, making a significant contribution to the modern age. He features in a BBC film called ""The Inventor of the Twentieth Century"". Russian novelist Yevgeny Zamyatin worked at Swan Hunter in 1916–17, and used it as background for his great anti-utopian work ""We"" which was a major influence on George Orwell's ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"". WWII ships built here include and which took part in the sinking of the ""Bismarck"". Other ships built there include the new HMS ""Ark Royal"" in the 1980s. The"
"Swan River (Manitoba–Saskatchewan) The Swan River is located in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The river, and several other features in the area, are named after the trumpeter swans found in the region. The river is located in the Swan Lake drainage basin. It arises in the northwest corner of the basin in the Porcupine Hills and flows generally south, contained in a large valley two miles (3 km) wide and deep, until it nears Pelly, Saskatchewan. Here it turns northeast, collecting tributary streams off the north escarpment of the Duck Mountains, and terminates at Swan Lake. Slopes"
"on Swan Island, located opposite Pork Point in the Kennebec River. Harward built this house about 1795, and raised thirteen children. Thomas' son John inherited the house and the shipyard, which he managed during its height in the 1850s. It is around that time that he made alterations to the house, updating it to prevailing Greek Revival and Italianate taste. The Harward shipyard suffered financial reverses in the Panic of 1857, and closed in 1869. Although it was not as large as the shipyards of Bath and Richmond, it was a significant element in the local economy. Harward Family House"
"1943. Today all that can be seen is a ruined chimney and some rotten pilings. Swanson Bay Swanson Bay is a ghost town in British Columbia, Canada located in Graham Reach on the Inside Passage, between Princess Royal Island and the northern mainland. It was named after Captain John Swanson of the Hudson's Bay Company's steamship, the SS ""Beaver"". In 1909, one of the first sulfite pulp mills on the B.C. coast was established here, with a planing and shingle mill added later. Whalen Pulp and Paper Mills of Vancouver, also the proprietor of the pulp mill at Port Alice,"
"yard to become Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson in 1903. This Company became the most technically advanced ship building facilities anywhere and built the RMS ""Mauretania"" for Cunard which was launched in 1906 and held the Blue Riband as the fastest liner across the Atlantic for 26 years. True to his Quaker beliefs, John Wigham Richardson cared greatly for the workers in his company and was a founder of the Workers’ Benevolent Trust in the region, a forerunner to the trades’ union movement. In 1890 he became President of North East Coast Institution of Engineers & Shipbuilders. The yard built"
"Swan River (electoral district) Swan River is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created in 1903, in what was then the northwestern corner of the province. Manitoba's borders expanded significantly in 1912, and Swan River is now located in the centre of the province, close to its western border with Saskatchewan. The division has seen several redistributions. The riding is bordered to the north by The Pas, to the south by Dauphin-Roblin, to the east by Lake Winnipeg and to the west by the province of Saskatchewan. Lake Winnipegosis runs through the riding. The"
"River rises not far from North Bannister, southeast of Perth and joins the Swan at Applecross, opening into Melville Water. The river then narrows into Blackwall Reach, a narrow and deep stretch leading the river through Fremantle Harbour to the sea. The Noongar people believe that the Darling Scarp represents the body of a Wagyl (also spelt Waugal) – a snakelike being from Dreamtime that meandered over the land creating rivers, waterways and lakes. It is thought that the Wagyl/Waugal created the Swan River. The estuary is subject to a microtidal regime, with a maximum tidal amplitude of about ,"
"down river from Glens Falls, Fort Edward, and around Lake Champlain. In winter most of the lumber was shipped from the east side of the river hauled by teams over the ice. In 1824 Charles Millard moved across the river to New Hamburg, establishing a lumber yard there. His son Walter carried on the business on the west side. Millard and Mills' steamboat ""Splendid"" sailed daily from the Milton dock. James Hall and Jacob Rowley ran auger factories in Milton at an early date. In 1822 Moses Birdsall ran a hat factory. Jesse I. Conklin had a general store, one"
"at the north end of The Shore in Leith in 1996. John Hunter (Royal Navy officer) Vice Admiral John Hunter (29 August 1737 – 13 March 1821) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who succeeded Arthur Phillip as the second governor of New South Wales, Australia and served as such from 1795 to 1800. Both a sailor and a scholar, he explored the Parramatta River as early as 1788, and was the first to surmise that Tasmania might be an island. As governor, he tried to combat serious abuses by the military in the face of powerful local interests"
"Swan Bay The Swan Bay is a shallow, marine embayment at the eastern end of the Bellarine Peninsula in Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia. The township of Queenscliff lies at its southern end, and St Leonards at its northern. It is partly separated from Port Phillip by Swan Island, Duck Island and Edwards Point. Most of the area is included in the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park as well as being listed as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention as part of the Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site. The bay is part"
"The British Government assented, and a fleet led by Charles Fremantle, aboard HMS ""Challenger"" returned along with two other vessels, ""Parmelia"" and ""HMS Sulphur"", including a detachment of the 63rd Regiment of Foot, arriving to establish the Swan River Colony in 1829. In 1831, the 1st/39th Regiment left King George Sound. Following the establishment of the Swan River Colony (later known as Western Australia), a detachment from 2nd/40th Regiment who were garrisoned in Sydney at the time, was dispatched to the new colony. Following them, were detachments from most of the regiments that were also serving in New South Wales."
"Swan Reach, South Australia Swan Reach is a river port in South Australia 127 km north-east of Adelaide on the Murray River between Blanchetown and Mannum in South Australia. It is on the left (or east) bank of the river. The Swan Reach Ferry is a cable ferry crossing operated by the state government as part of the state's road network. Swan Reach, with all parts below Lock #1, is also one of the lowest parts of the river. It is currently (2009–2010) about 1.5 metres below its normal level. At the , Swan Reach had a population of 235."
"Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company 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 (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. The company notably produced iron work for Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar in the 1850s, and the world's first all-iron warship, HMS ""Warrior"", launched in"
"HMS Challenger (1826) HMS ""Challenger"" was a 28-gun sixth rate of the Royal Navy launched at Portsmouth, England on 14 November 1826. Under the command of Charles Fremantle, she was in part responsible for the creation of the colony of Swan River in 1829. Captain Freemantle was under orders to take possession of the western side of New Holland on behalf of the British government. ""Challenger"" arrived on 25 April 1829 off Garden Island. She attempted to sail into Cockburn Sound the next day, but due to the incompetence of the sailing master, struck a rock midway between Garden and"