Two photos on file from this small shipyard

ROGER BECK
1924, 114grt
Amble Ship Building, Amble (38) for Swansea Pilots
Served them well until broken up at Connah's Quay commencing on 4/1/1960



CALDERGATE
1926, 138grt
Amble Shipbuilding Company, Amble (40), and the last vessel from this small yard
Built for Anglo American, later Esso as shown in her funnel colours
She was registered at Hull
There is a reference in 'Marine News' 1976, p.138 to her being sold to a company called Harrison on the Thames as a bunkering tanker and later as a 'tank hulk' before being sold to breakers at Dartford Creek in October 1975. I had noted her on the Thames in August 1961.

Thanks for the info.Hadn't realised that there had been a shipbuilding company at Amble.
Cheers
Billy

Yes it was set up c 1918 by Palmers to build Concrete Tugs for the British Admiralty and originally called the 'Amble Ferro Concrete Co Ltd'.
They built two Tugs, Yard No 25 Cretebow and Yard No 26 Cretestem in 1919. They then went on to build a number of small vessels, some of which have been mentioned on the Forum.

The Yard was situated on the area known as 'The Braid'. Not sure when it closed as I cannot find the book I'm looking for!

It became a subsidiary of the mighty Palmers (of the Tyne) and here is my list:

X means dumb, yard no. at the right side

A.M.P. 20 Tanker 1921 261 X AMBLE (PALMERS)
ANGLO MEX 101 Tug 1921 172 SR AMBLE (PALMERS) 28
A.M.P. 3 Tanker 1921 261 X AMBLE (PALMERS)
ANGLO MEX Tug 1921 230 SR AMBLE (PALMERS) 29
A.B.GOWAN Ferry 1921 192 SR AMBLE (PALMERS) 27
A.P.O.C.No.13 Tanker 1924 224 X AMBLE (PALMERS) 37
CORY OIL No.2 Tanker 1924 206 SRA AMBLE (PALMERS) 34
CORY OIL No.1 Tanker 1924 206 SRA AMBLE (PALMERS) 33
KHUZISTAN Tanker 1924 871 SRA AMBLE (PALMERS) 36
ROGER BECK Pilot 1924 114 SR AMBLE (PALMERS) 38
SOUTHGATE Tanker 1925 143 MA AMBLE (PALMERS) 39
CALDERGATE Tanker 1926 138 MA AMBLE (PALMERS) 40

Ref. CRETESTEM, dismantled 1937, hull bombed and sunk in Hendon Dock, Sunderland on 24/05/1940 ... post war, hull dumped on the shore south of the Wear. Did someone once say that a section of her hull is still visible?

George,
Could you be thinking of the CRETEHAWSER?
See photo on her second page from 2018.
See: viewtopic.php?f=206&t=5908

Ron M

No, that was a separate event, pre-war

http://www.shippingandshipbuilding.uk/v ... =CRETESTEM

http://www.sunderlandships.com/view.php ... RETEHAWSER

Mind you, here's another, wrecked off Whitburn!

http://www.sunderlandships.com/view.php ... CRETECABLE