Smiths Dock Company

Smiths Dock Company

Smiths Dock Company, Limited, often referred to simply as Smiths Dock, was a British shipbuilding company that became associated with South Bank in Middlesbrough on the River Tees in Northeast England, after opening an operation there in 1907. Smiths Dock are perhaps most famous for preparing the design of the Flower class corvette, an anti-submarine convoy escort of World War II


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