Dartmouth Museum have organised an event called Memories of working at Philip & Son which is being held at 5.30pm on Friday, November 13 at The Flavel.

It is a multimedia history experience beginning with an illustrated talk about the history of the shipbuilding company and its two yards at Noss and Sandquay.

It will be followed by a documentary shot in the latter years of the 20th century and a chance to hear from some of the men who worked there.

Finally Premier Marinas will present the story of the new Noss-on Dart development.

Joint Vice Chair of Dartmouth Museum Jonathan Turner said: “The oldest site was at Sandquay where ships were built since probably since the 16th or 17th century and certainly the Napoleonic era all the way up until they were bought by Mr Philip in the late 1800s.

“They built ships there from 1880 to just after the First World War and across the river at Noss there was another company that built wonderful yachts, motor yacht tenders and speedboats called Simpson Strickland who sold the site to Philip & Son.

“Sandquay was used for a lot of the dry dock work.

“There was a design studios and engineering design shop there and the more heavy engineering and construction, building motors and putting ships together was done from 1918 up until 1964, when the shipbuilding part of Philip and Son closed.

“They did build the occasional ship thereafter but largely it was over by the end of the 60s.

“Probably their peak time was during the Second World War when they were employing about 600 people and for most of the 30s 40s and 50s they were the major employer in the town alongside Britannia which also employed about 300 or 400 people at the time.”

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