Furness Shipbuilding Company

It was incorporated as a Private company in 1917 and covered an 85-acre site on the north bank of the River Tees at Haverton Hill, opposite Middlesbrough.

[2] In the late 1920s it built a number of ships for service on the Great Lakes of North America, transporting grain and gypsum rock.

[3] By 1961 the yard employed 2,750 workers and was producing ships of to 52,000 tons deadweight tonnage and steelwork for bridges and gasholders.

[2] The site of the yard passed into the ownership of the Tees Alliance Group, which acquired it to build offshore structures for the oil industry.

[7] With the bankruptcy of the company in 2014, its assets, including the shipyard site, were acquired by the Dano-German venture Offshore Structures (Britain) Ltd.[8][9]