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1. A few notes concerning shipbuilding on the Tees, copied from an old Heavisides Printers book.

   The ships built by Messrs. Pearse, Lockwood, & Co., have been much admired, and they have greatly contributed to give a high character to iron vessels built at Stockton, which are now pronounced to stand A 1 in the nautical world. Besides the iron ship yards at Stockton, there are other two at Middlesbro’, also one for the building of composite ships, and a wood ship-building yard now occupied by Mr. Leach. The question has frequently been discussed whether wood or iron vessels are best. Judging from the fact that most of the old wood ship builders have turned their attention to the building of the latter, and that a large decrease of tonnage has lately token place in wood ships afloat, it may reasonably be concluded that, ultimately, iron vessels will almost totally supersede wood ones.

   As new mills (steelworks) for the production of ship building iron are constantly increasing in the neighbourhood of Stockton, and, as these mills can be readily supplied with coal, there is every
   prospect that iron ship building yards will still farther increase on the Tees.

   ” On the banks of the Tees what thistles once did grow,
   Where our iron ships are built — which now are all the go ;
   They are rivetted so well, and their models are so fine,
   That the Tees takes the shine from the Clyde and the Tyne.

   Then success to the furnace, the rivet, and the rail,
   May the trade of old Stockton long flourish and prevail;
   May the sun of its commerce, now risen, never set,
   And our duty to each other may none of us forget.”

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