| Description | Includes memoranda and articles of association 1945-1960; shares records 1915-1960; minutes 1915-1969; directors’ reports with accounts 1949-1960; general correspondence 1920-1975; war damage papers 1941-1943; insurance policies 1941-1966; statistics and surveys 1951-1968; general accounts books 1915-1972; general ledgers 1915-1970s; final costings 1921-1944; yearly stock take records 1948-1960; purchase ledgers 1916-1920, 1975; sales ledgers 1916-1932, 1951-1969; petty cash records 1952-1970;
salaries and wages records 1919-1976; financial balances 1920-1961; cost records 1940-1945, 1975-1976;
receipts 1974-1975; staff records 1954-1974; ship files 1940-1943, 1967-1975; ship manufacturing correspondence 1969-1975; ship agreements 1957-1971; assets and property records 1919-1922, 1960, 1973-1974; property agreements 1922-1971; property correspondence 1963-1975; shipping photographs late 19th century, 1958-1970s; general photographs 20th century; publications 1966-1976; and Cochrane and Sons Limited, Selby, records 1937-1974. |
| AdminHistory | Drypool Engineering Company was founded in Hull in Dec 1915 as a general engineering works. The Company became involved in ship repairs and acquired two dry docks on the River Hull. In 1920 a new firm Drypool Engineering and Dry Docks Company was established and took over Drypool Engineering Company. Another dry dock was eventually acquired in 1955 and in 1958 ships began to be built in these dry docks. The Drypool Engineering and Dry Docks Company became the Drypool Group and in 1968 took over Cochrane's shipyard in Selby. In 1973 C D Holmes' Beverley shipyard was taken over by Drypool. In 1975-1976 the Group failed and the Selby yard was sold, then in late 1976 the Beverley yard was also sold. In February 1977 the Company went into liquidation.
Sources: 'The Shipbuilding Industry, A Guide to Historical Records' by L A Ritchie (Manchester University Press, 1992) and 'Cochranes of Selby, Yorkshire Shipbuilders 1884-1992' by Peter D Coates and Eric Hammal (2013). |