WPW029263 WALES (1929). View of Chepstow showing industrial works, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.

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Title [WPW029263] View of Chepstow showing industrial works, oblique aerial view. 5"x4" black and white glass plate negative.
Reference WPW029263
Date 1929
Link Coflein Archive Item 6378104
Place name
Parish
District
Country WALES
Easting / Northing 354000, 194000
Longitude / Latitude -2.6648442993575, 51.642450404753
National Grid Reference ST540940

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National Shipyard No. 1 Established in the First World War, presumably to make up for shipping sunk by U-Boats. The War Forest was launched here in September 1918. A number of 'N-type' ships were constructed here on these slips. The War Apple was launched in May 1919, The War Fig and the War Genius in 1920. A syndicate known as the Monmouth Shipbuilding Co. took over from the government after the war. Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. established here in 1925. They built three tank landing craft a month towards the end of the Second World War. [Source: Ivor Waters, The Port of Chepstow, The Chepstow Society, 1977].

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