Marine Consultant
Since retirement from active shipbuilding, running a marina and marine surveying I have now concentrated on local maritime history. I still have links with the marine insurance business, being an Introducer for Haven Knox Johnston, one of the top marine insurance companies on the UK.
For a competitive quotation please click on the link lower down this page.
Details of local history books on the Humber and in particular information on what was the largest and most successful wooden shipyard in the county of Lincolnshire - Burton upon Stather - can be found below.
The only book with full details of the Humber keels and sloops built at Barton shipyard or owned by Barton ship-owners.
BARTON and the RIVER HUMBER 1086 - 1900 ISBN 0 900959 20 7
With information on Barton-owned sea-going trading ships, canal vessels, and paddle steamers from the Shipping Registers for the ports of Hull, Goole and Grimsby. Available, price £7.00 (or £9.00 including postage) from the above address or from Geoff Bryant, Workers Educational Association, 8 Queen Street, Barton on Humber DN18 5QP.
ALSO The first book of a forthcoming series about Lincolnshire Shipyards -
A LINCOLNSHIRE SHIPYARD - BURTON UPON STATHER ISBN 978-0-9557444-0-2
The story of the growth of the shipyard at Burton Stather from a small provincial yard to one known nationally for the quality of the ships built there.
It records the foresight and energy of the Wray family in planning the yard, and their determination to develop the shipyard to win orders from the new shipping companies that had been formed to trade with the rapidly expanding British Empire in the mid - 19th century.
With details of every ship built at Burton Stather ( and at the Wrays' earlier shipyard at Alkborough) and census records of the shipwrights and other craftsmen who worked there. Available, price £7.50 ( or £9.50 including postage ) from the above address.
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Telephone (R.Clapson) +44 (0)1652-632108 e-mail clapso245@clara.co.uk
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