A WORLDWIDE marketing campaign is underway to dispose of one of the most famous shipyards in the world - the Swan Hunter Shipbuilding and Engineering Group's Wallsend yard in Britain.
Following the successful handover to the Royal Navy of its final frigate HMS Richmond earlier this month, the Wallsend shipyard is now to be sold on the instructions of the Joint Administrative Receivers.
With such an illustrious history, the yard can boast that it was the birthplace of such famous ships as the SS Mauretania, HMS Ark Royal and Atlantic Conveyor.
Agents Henry Butcher and Co and Sanderson Townend and Gilbert have been instructed by the joint receivers to sell the 16-hectare facility.
The receivers are also offering the purchaser the opportunity to buy the Swan Hunter name, which has been associated with shipbuilding for more than 150 years and which has been responsible for the construction of about 2,700 ships.
There are four construction berths capable of handling vessels of up to 250,000 deadweight tonnes and extensive dockside and berth craneage of up to 180 tonnes.