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Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd. Founded 18 Nov 1871 to repair ships for Mitchell & Co, Milburn & Co, and Nelson, Donkin & Co. The company built the first steel boiler on the Tyne, 1878. Dry dock opened 1895. Began building steam turbines 1905. For a potted history - see History of the Parish of Wallsend (1923), by William Richardson. '