J & W Dudgeon

J & W Dudgeon was a Victorian shipbuilding and engineering company based in Cubitt Town, London, founded by John and William Dudgeon.

John and William Dudgeon had established the Sun Iron Works in Millwall in the 1850s, and had a reputation for advanced marine engines.^[1] In 1862 they set up as shipbuilders at a yard to the south of Cubitt Town Pier. They initially specialised in building blockade runners for the American Civil War, at times employing up to 1500 men.^[2]

The yard, with 344 feet (105 m) of river frontage, stretched nearly 600 feet (180 m) inland to Manchester Road.^[3] The first ship built there was the 150-foot Flora, the first twin-screw steamer to cross the Atlantic Ocean.^[1] The firm survived the 1866 crash of Overend Gurney, with enough orders to take over the disused yard to the south in 1869. This gave a combined river frontage of 500 feet (150 m).^[3]

In 1874 the company was severely damaged by the bungled launching of the large warship Independencia for the Brazilian government,^[4] repairs and refitting eventually being done by Samuda Brothers, just down the river. The ship was eventually acquired by the Royal Navy, as HMS Neptune. William Dudgeon died in 1875 and the yard closed.^[5] John Dudgeon was subsequently judged to be 'of unsound mind' and was admitted to an asylum in Edinburgh.^[3]

By 1882 the site had become an oil storage wharf, with tanks below ground level. By 1913 it had 27 oil storage tanks with a combined capacity of over 14,000 tons.^[3] It remained in this use until the 1960s, by which time it had nearly 100 tanks, some of 20,000 gallons.^[6]

In 1969 an explosion in an oil storage tank being demolished at the site (then known as Dudgeon's wharf) killed five firemen.^[7]

The site was later developed for housing and is known as Compass Point.^[8]

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Ship	GRT	Yard No	Date of Launch
SS Flora	305		25 September 1862^[9]
Annie	370		1863
Coya	515		August 1863^[10]
Apelles	1030		6 May 1863
Dee	324		1863
Kate	477		1863
Vesta	370		1863
Ceres	374		1863
Don	390		23 May 1863
Hebe	449	9	1863
SS Far East	1259		31 October 1863^[11]
SS Experiment			1863
SS Edith	537		1864
Atalanta	380		1864
PS Avalon	614		26 March 1864^[12]
PS Zealous	613		23 April 1864^[13]
SS Run Her	481		1864
SS Rattlesnake	432		1864
SS Virginia	614		1864
SS Louisa Ann Fanny	680		1865
SS Mary	902		1865
SS Ruahine	1504		March 1865
SS John Wells	393		1865
SS Mary Augusta	680		1865
SS Ravensbury	666		23 May 1864^[14]
SS Handig Vlug	138		1865
SS Bolivar	933		1866
SS Zeeland			16 June 1866
SS George Reed	170		1866
SS Thames	103		1866
SS Liguria	198	60	28 July 1866
SS Henda	143		1867
SS Assunta	143		1867
HMS Viper	1228		21 December 1867^[15]
SS Eugenie	143		18 April 1867
SS Spindrift	171		1869
SS Conchita	181		1869
SS Manuelita	505		1869
SS Pepita	181		1869
SS PO	1698		June 1870
SS Eleanor	1698		August 1870
SS Italo-Platense	1698		30 December 1869
SS Plemmtannikov			1870
SS Aleksey			1870
HMS Abyssinia	2900		19 February 1870
SS La Pampa	1698	75	4 April 1870
SS King Masaba	281		1871
SS Lulio	670		13 October 1870
HMS Hecate	3480		30 September 1871^[16]
PS Richard Young	718		1871
SS Salgir	498		July 1872
SS Pasages	791		28 May 1872
SS Fair Penang	105		1872
SS Tenasserim	2570		20 April 1872
SS Khoper	861		November 1872
SS Alma	498		September 1872
SS Gauthiod	730		1873
SS Union	245		March 1873
SS Enterprise	604		April 1873
SS Chatham	278		1873
SS Svithiod	734		June 1873
SS Santander	2213	103	13 December 1872
SS Langkat	276		November 1874
SS Brahestad	233		May 1874
SS Calais	309		1874
SS South Western	657		12 September 1874^[17]
SS Guernsey	545	121	31 January 1874
SS The Miner			1874
SS Duckenfield	368	131	15 May 1875
HMS Neptune	9310		10 September 1874

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[2]
Hostettler, Eve (1986). "Ship building and related industries on the Isle of Dogs". Dockland. NELP/GLC. pp. 139–140. ISBN 0-7168-1611-3.
[3]
"Cubitt Town: Riverside area: from Newcastle Drawdock to Cubitt Town Pier". Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs. Institute of Historical Research. 1994. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
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"Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 28142. 24 October 1874. p. 5, col. E.
[5]
"Money-Market and City Intelligence". The Times. No. 28450. 19 October 1875. p. 6.
[6]
"5 firemen killed in explosion". The Times. No. 57615. 18 July 1969. p. 1.
[7]
"Dudgeon's Wharf". London Fire Journal. 24 December 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
[8]
"Modern Docklands: Docklands housing". Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs. Institute of Historical Research. 1994. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
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"Launch of the Flora". East London Observer. England. 4 October 1862. Retrieved 30 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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"Sydney direct in 70 days". London Daily News. England. 14 September 1863. Retrieved 30 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
[11]
"For Sale. The Winn-Screw steamer Far East". Liverpool Daily Post. England. 12 February 1870. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
[12]
"Harwich. The Continental Traffic". The Suffolk Chronicle. England. 2 April 1864. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
[13]
"Great Eastern Railway". London Evening Standard. England. 27 April 1864. Retrieved 29 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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"Launch of the Ravensbury". Essex Standard. England. 1 June 1864. Retrieved 30 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
[15]
"HMS Viper at Naval Database website". Retrieved 23 September 2008.^{[permanent dead link]}
[16]
"Thames versus Clyde Shipbuilding". Greenock Advertiser. Scotland. 10 October 1871. Retrieved 30 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
[17]
"Launch at Messrs. Dudgeon's". East London Observer. England. 19 September 1874. Retrieved 30 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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[CNHS-1] [1]
Kevin Foster (February 1991). "Where they lie: C.S.S. Tallahassee" (PDF). Newsletter 6. The Confederate Naval Historical Society. pp. 4–7. Retrieved 19 August 2011.

[Hostettler-2] [2]
Hostettler, Eve (1986). "Ship building and related industries on the Isle of Dogs". Dockland. NELP/GLC. pp. 139–140. ISBN 0-7168-1611-3.

[brithist1-3] [3]
"Cubitt Town: Riverside area: from Newcastle Drawdock to Cubitt Town Pier". Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs. Institute of Historical Research. 1994. Retrieved 19 August 2011.

[4] [4]
"Naval and Military Intelligence". The Times. No. 28142. 24 October 1874. p. 5, col. E.

[5] [5]
"Money-Market and City Intelligence". The Times. No. 28450. 19 October 1875. p. 6.

[6] [6]
"5 firemen killed in explosion". The Times. No. 57615. 18 July 1969. p. 1.

[7] [7]
"Dudgeon's Wharf". London Fire Journal. 24 December 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2011.

[8] [8]
"Modern Docklands: Docklands housing". Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs. Institute of Historical Research. 1994. Retrieved 19 August 2011.

[9] [9]
"Launch of the Flora". East London Observer. England. 4 October 1862. Retrieved 30 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[10] [10]
"Sydney direct in 70 days". London Daily News. England. 14 September 1863. Retrieved 30 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[11] [11]
"For Sale. The Winn-Screw steamer Far East". Liverpool Daily Post. England. 12 February 1870. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[12] [12]
"Harwich. The Continental Traffic". The Suffolk Chronicle. England. 2 April 1864. Retrieved 3 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[13] [13]
"Great Eastern Railway". London Evening Standard. England. 27 April 1864. Retrieved 29 October 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[14] [14]
"Launch of the Ravensbury". Essex Standard. England. 1 June 1864. Retrieved 30 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[PB-15] [15]
"HMS Viper at Naval Database website". Retrieved 23 September 2008.^{[permanent dead link]}

[16] [16]
"Thames versus Clyde Shipbuilding". Greenock Advertiser. Scotland. 10 October 1871. Retrieved 30 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[17] [17]
"Launch at Messrs. Dudgeon's". East London Observer. England. 19 September 1874. Retrieved 30 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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