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Luke Crown and his son, John, acquired a yard on the Monkwearmouth shore of the Wear previously owned by a John Candish. The company went through many name changes, from the J Crown Slipway, to the Strand Slipway Company, then John Crown, and to John Crown and Sons in 1901, before becoming a limited liability company in 1903 as John Crown and Sons Ltd they traded until 1947 when the yard was taken over by another company.

Unfortunately the staff were told to destroy all blueprints and models,, the Sunderland

Arhives hold a few records including the blueprints to LV no.77

 

 

List of lightvessels built for Trinty House at Monkwearmouth yard.

 

 

LV no.70 John Crown & Sons Ltd.(Hull #109) 275 tons launched 15th December 1902

LV no.71 John Crown & Sons Ltd.(Hull #110) 275 tons launched 11th February 1903

LV no.72 John Crown & Sons Ltd.(Hull #111) 275 tons launched 30th March1903

LV no.73 John Crown & Sons Ltd.(Hull #112) 275 tons launched 2nd May 1904

 

 

LV no.77 John Crown & Sons Ltd.(Hull #140) launched 17th October 1911

she was an automated LV completed in 1911

 

 

The British were pioneers when it came to unmanned vessels,

at the time termed ‘crewless’ light vessels, from the early 1900s.

Crewless vessels were used on the Scottish OTTER ROCK, SKEIRINOE

and CASH SGEIR stations from 1901-06

with Trinity House commissioning LVs 76 & 77 in 1909 and 1910.

various British ship builders would export lightvessels around the world

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