Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company

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Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company Ltd was formerly an independent company, located on the River Tyne at Point Pleasant, near Wallsend, Tyne & Wear, around a mile downstream from the Swan Hunter shipyard, with which it later merged.

The company manufactured Parsons turbines under license for ships including the famous RMS Mauretania and numerous British warships.

Latterly, the yard was owned by British Shipbuilders. Today, the site is owned by AMEC, who operated it as an offshore facility until placing it in mothballs in January 2005. It was announced in June 2005 that the site was to be sold, probably for redevelopment.