Green Shipbuilders
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Green Shipbuilders were based in Bristol, England, during the 19th century, constructing wooden sailing ships at Wapping on the River Avon from 1814, and later at Tombs' Dock in Dean's Marsh and the Butts on the Frome.[1]
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Shipbuilding, Boatbuilding, Shipowner |
Founded | 1814 |
Defunct | 1873 |
Fate | Closed |
Successor | Yard taken over by G.A. Miller |
Headquarters | River Avon & River Frome, UK |
Key people | John Green (founder), Frederick William Green, William Patterson Jr., George A. Miller, J. & W. Peters |
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The main site, later known as Green's Dock after the company, was filled in for improvement to the quayside in 1883, and now lies approximately under the Watershed Media Centre on Saint Augustine's Reach.