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Thanks for your comments on my article 6oth Aniversary of D day (A2806698) . I have readyour article (A1323721) with interest .Several craft of the 13th LCT were built by Redpath & Brown

Were Redpath & Brown a part of the river tees builders ?

Regards

John Rushton

Hello John,
Been off site a while so did not see your posting.
Tees Side Bridge and Engineering along with Redpath Dorman Long and other steel works in the area merged and became Dorman Long until Nationalisation when it became British Steel. It is now Corus who by all accounts are trying to unload it to an Indian Company.
I never knew where the Brown came from and did not research that part but will look into it.
Remember most of those steel works came up on the back of the Railways and we had a few Rail Engine builders in those early years. They diversified into fabrication shops and rolling mills it was the war that brought them into shipbuilding where they used fabrication methods. They built sections that came together on the slips and cut the time for building much needed boats.
We could not build a Dory on the Tees now, like the Durham coal mines it is all gone, such is progress.
Regards Frank.