…Merseyside ships and merchant seamen played a crucial part in ensuring Britain’s survival, alongside her dock labourers, shipbuilders and ship repairers.

On a sailor’s grave, there are no roses. This is according to a German folk song sung during the war…

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'The is a the shipbuilder a ship.

In the man could we lay him open, we should see the sufficient reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work.'

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'The is a the shipbuilder a ship. In the man could we lay him open, we should see the sufficient reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work.'

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“The Shipbuilder, a character from TROS who came and went as the story evolved. The windows in image 2 are her office, where we find her in image 3” - concept artist Adam Brockbank ()

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One from the archive – overlooking Sunderland's Stockton Road is St George's, a United Reformed Church. Originally a Presbyterian church, local shipbuilder Robert Appleby Bartram, was a major benefactor...

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George bought art and bought well, some fine paintings by Rembrandt (Portrait of Jan Rijcksen and Griet Jans, “The Shipbuilder and his Wife”), Rubens and other Old Masters. He also bought British art, this Gainsborough (Diana and Actaeon) and an excellent James Ward, for example.

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This C19 stained glass roundel bearing arms of Adm Sir John Hawkins just sold for £1600 hammer &more

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