2-631-681 - Historic England/Heritage Images

Furness Shipbuilding Yard, Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, November 1918. A dredger on the River Tees, looking east towards Haverton Hill Light in the distance. One of a series of images showing the construction of Furness Shipbuilding Yard at Haverton Hill. In 1917, authorisation was given for it to be built as a consequence of ships being sunk during the First World War.