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Ship- and boat-building

Derek Rowell at work at Sunderland Maritime Heritage, Church Street East. For more about this extraordinary volunteer effort see here.

This section tells more about ship-building in Sunderland, perhaps the industry for which the city is most famed. Our research is still in progress.

For film clips about Sunderland shipbuilding see the BBC site Nation in Film.

Content generated during research for two paperback books 'Sunderland and its Origins: Monks to Mariners' (ISBN 13 : 9781860774799) and 'Sunderland: Building a City' (ISBN 13 : 978-1-86077-547-5 ) for the England's Past for Everyone series

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