Deptford, Shipbuilding Yards

HER Number:
2805

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Deptford, Shipbuilding Yards

Place:
Deptford

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Maritime

Site Type: Broad:
Marine Construction Site

Site Type: Specific:
Shipyard

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shipyards were only set up on the north-eastern edge of the Deptford peninsula in the Wear some time between John Wood’s survey of the area in 1826 and the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan of 1855 on which the site is annotated ‘Ship Building Yards’. There were probably 2 yards at that time, and visible on the map are two sawpits, three cranes and two smithies (normal facilities associated with timber construction), along with a number of other buildings. It is uncertain who owned these yards. The yards were subsumed within Laing’s Deptford Yard (HER ref. No. 2803) by the end of the nineteenth century.

Easting:
3890

Northing:
5806

Grid Reference:
NZ38905806

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2805 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 8 The Archaeological Practice, 2002, Shipbuilding on Tyne and Wear - Prehistory to Present. Tyne & Wear Historic Environment Record.