Welcome to Hartlepool Built

This website contains details of every ship built in Hartlepool and West Hartlepool from the 1830s to the 1960s when the last shipyards closed. The amount of information we have on individual ships varies, but where possible includes: ship specifications, owners, Masters, crew lists, photographs, plans and any other information that helps us build a full history of each vessel.

Our small team of dedicated volunteers is working hard gathering information and adding it to the site. This takes time, however, so please be patient and revisit our site regularly, as it grows day-by-day. Although we make every effort to be accurate, it is inevitable that some errors may occur. If you are aware of any inaccuracies in our information, please contact us so that we can correct the details.

We are always seeking more information to add to the site. If you have any relevant photographs, objects or simply memories of any Hartlepool-built ships and would like to share them with people around the world, we would love to hear from you.

We have lots of information that we have not yet put online. So if you are looking for information about a ship, or perhaps trying to trace a sea-faring ancestor and can't find anything on the site, please get in touch.

Please note that some of the early yardnumbers used on this website are 'unofficial' and are for site administration only.

Thank you for visiting the ‘Hartlepool-built’ website. We are currently undertaking a major refurbishment of the site, to provide even better search facilities. As a result, we are not currently able to add new data, however, these improvements should be in place soon, so please bear with us – we have a huge amount of new information to add, just as soon as we can.