Isaac Pimblott and Sons
Isaac Pimblott and Sons were based on the River Weaver, near to the Manchester Ship Canal
1867 Founded by Isaac Pimblott and then was taken over by his two sons, John and Thomas. Originally located near the town centre (presumably Northwich), they moved to an upstream location (above Hunts Lock) in 1906. Their old shipyard is now a pleasure craft marina.
1900s The yard built small tugs, barges, launches and small wooden harbour craft.
1909 Isaac Pimblott died. He was immensely proud of the fact that he built the first Northwich steamer to cross the Atlantic, to South America.
WWII built thirteen examples of the "VIC" type Clyde puffer, three coasters, three tankers.
1950s In the post war period, the yard focussed on building coasters for Indonesian and other countries.
1960s It continued building small craft for the navy in the 60s
1971 The yard closed in 1971
1972 The company went into voluntary liquidation.[1]
See Also
Sources of Information
- L. A. Ritchie, The Shipbuilding Industry: A Guide to Historical Records (1992)
- British Shipbuilding Yards. 3 vols by Norman L. Middlemiss
- [1] Heritage Now
- Records for the company are hard to come by with a small quantity held in the Cheshire County Archives.