Mitchison Tyne Shipbuilders Friars Goose Gateshead

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T Mitchison's small shiprepair yard was on the southern bank of the Tyne at Friar's Goose, Gateshead. In the 1830s this site was occupied by a wooden shipbuilding yard, later becoming a repair facility known as Anderson's Slipway. Mitchison bought the yard in 1919. Their first ship was the GREYFRIARS which was partially built by J & D Morris at Pelaw Main, until that yard went into liquidation in 1923.

T Mitchison occupied the yard until 1955 mainly as a shiprepairer for small craft such as tugs. They had a slipway for vessels up to 230ft in length and a repairing quay.

In 1955 the yard was taken over by the London based firm of James Burness & Sons and recommenced shipbuilding. The GREYFRIARS of 1923 had been Morris' yard number 71 and Mitchisons decided to carry on with this sequence. They then built a number of small craft including fishing vessels and tugs. At this time the yard had 5 slips of up to 300 ft in length.

Following financial difficulties, the yard closed in 1964.

Yd No	Year	Ship Name	D / H / P
72	1955	Kamaran	D / H / P
73	1955	Tewa	D / H
75	1956	Arthur	D / H / P
77	1956	Varco	D / H / P
78	1956	Qatif 7	D / H / P
79	1956	Qatif 8	D / H / P
83	1958	Sirius Cove	D / H / P
84	1958	Wooree	D / H / P
87	1959	Cashel	D / H / P
88	1959	Clonmel	D / H / P
89	1959	Orkan	D / H / P
91	1959	William Lamey	D / H / P
96	1960	Island Mariner	D / H / P
526	1962	Cultra	D / H / P
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