Thames Ironworks, Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

Thames Ironworks was a British shipbuilder from the early 1800s with its yard at Blackwall..

Laird's began with warship construction in the 1840s and was a leader in large vessels by 1885. Their primary yard was at Birkenhead.

Shipbuilding

Ship	Type	Launched	Fate
H.M.S. Warrior	armoured frigate	29 Dec, 1860	Museum Ship 1979
H.M.S. Waterwitch	armoured gunboat	28 Jun, 1866	Sold 1890
H.M.S. Serapis	iron screw troopship	2 Sep, 1866	Sold 23 Nov, 1894
S.M.S. König Wilhelm	armored frigate	25 Apr, 1868	Sold c. 1921
H.M.S. Volage	corvette	27 Feb, 1869	Sold
H.M.S. Active	corvette	13 Mar, 1869	Sold 1906
H.M.S. Cyclops	coastal monitor	18 Jul, 1871	Sold 1903
H.M.S. Rover	corvette	12 Aug, 1874	Sold 1893
H.M.S. Superb	central battery ironclad	16 Nov, 1875	Sold 1906
H.M.S. Swift	gunvessel	1879	Sold 1902
H.M.S. Linnet	gunvessel	1880	Sold 1904
H.M.S. Benbow	second class battleship	15 Jun, 1885	Sold 13 Jul, 1909
H.M.S. Sans Pareil	second class battleship	9 May, 1887	Sold 9 Apr, 1907
H.M.S. Blenheim	first class protected cruiser	5 Jul, 1890	Sold 13 Jul, 1926
H.M.S. Grafton	first class protected cruiser	30 Jan, 1892	Sold 1 Jul, 1920
H.M.S. Theseus	first class protected cruiser	8 Sep, 1892	Sold 1921
H.M.S. Zebra	destroyer	3 Dec, 1895	Broken up 1914
H.M.S. Albion	pre-dreadnought	21 Jun, 1898	Sold 11 Dec, 1919
H.M.S. Duncan	pre-dreadnought	21 Mar, 1901	Sold 18 Feb, 1920
H.M.S. Cornwallis	pre-dreadnought	13 Jul, 1901	Torpedoed 9 Jan, 1917
H.M.S. Black Prince	armoured cruiser	8 Nov, 1904	Sunk 31 May, 1916
H.M.S. Nautilus	destroyer	30 Mar, 1910	Sep, 1920
H.M.S. Thunderer	dreadnought	1 Feb, 1911	Sold 17 Dec, 1926

Constructed Warrior in 1859. Its last major warship was Thunderer when it faced liquidation in 1912, thus ending major construction on the Thames.

Bibliography

• Burt, R. A. (1986). British Battleships of World War One. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).