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'''William Doxford & Sons''' was a British shipbuilding firm founded in 1840. It is often referred to as just '''Doxford''' before being acquired by the [[Northumberland Shipbuilding Company]] in 1918. ==Shipbuilding== <div name=fredbot:ships> {|border=1 |'''Ship'''||'''Type'''||'''Launched'''||'''Fate''' |- |{{UK-2Cygnet|f=p}}||gunboat||30 May, 1874||Broken up 1889 |- |{{UK-2Express|f=p}}||gunboat||16 Jul, 1874||Sold 1889 |- |{{UK-2Contest|f=p}}||gunboat||29 Aug, 1874||Broken up 1889 |- |{{UK-1Opal|f=p}}||corvette||9 Mar, 1875||Sold 1892 |- |{{UK-Haughty|f=p}}||destroyer||18 Sep, 1895||Broken up 1912 |- |{{UK-2Hardy|f=p}}||destroyer||16 Dec, 1895||Broken up 1911 |- |{{UK-Violet|f=p}}||destroyer||3 May, 1897||Broken up 1920 |- |{{UK-Sylvia|f=p}}||destroyer||3 Jul, 1897||Broken up 1919 |- |{{UK-Lee|f=p}}||destroyer||27 Jan, 1899||Wrecked 1909 |- |{{UK-1Success|f=p}}||destroyer||21 Mar, 1901||Wrecked 1914 |- |{{UK-Opal|f=p}}||destroyer||11 Sep, 1915|| |- |{{UK-Mantis|f=p}}||gunboat||14 Sep, 1915||Sold 20 Jan, 1940 |- |{{UK-Moth|f=p}}||gunboat||15 Sep, 1915||Scuttled 21 Dec, 1941 |- |{{UK-Ophelia|f=p}}||destroyer||13 Oct, 1915|| |- |{{UK-Opportune|f=p}}||destroyer||20 Nov, 1915|| |- |{{UK-Oracle|f=p}}||destroyer||23 Dec, 1915|| |- |{{UK-Orestes|f=p}}||destroyer||21 Mar, 1916|| |- |{{UK-Orford|f=p}}||destroyer||19 Apr, 1916|| |- |{{UK-1Orpheus|f=p}}||destroyer||17 Jun, 1916|| |- |{{UK-Octavia|f=p}}||destroyer||21 Jun, 1916|| |- |{{UK-Norseman|f=p}}||destroyer||15 Aug, 1916|| |- |{{UK-1Oberon|f=p}}||destroyer||29 Sep, 1916|| |- |{{UK-Redoubt|f=p}}||destroyer||28 Oct, 1916|| 13 Jul, 1926 |- |{{UK-Recruit|f=p}}||destroyer||9 Dec, 1916||Mined 9 Aug, 1917 |- |{{UK-Ulysses|f=p}}||destroyer||24 Mar, 1917||Collision 29 Oct, 1918 |- |{{UK-Umpire|f=p}}||destroyer||9 Jun, 1917|| 7 Jan, 1930 |- |{{UK-Vega|f=p}}||destroyer||1 Sep, 1917|| |- |{{UK-Velox|f=p}}||destroyer||17 Nov, 1917|| |- |{{UK-Walpole|f=p}}||destroyer||12 Feb, 1918|| 8 Feb, 1945 |- |{{UK-Whitley|f=p}}||destroyer||13 Apr, 1918||Bombed 19 May, 1940 |- |{{UK-Success|f=p}}||destroyer||29 Jun, 1918|| |- |{{UK-Shamrock|f=p}}||destroyer||26 Aug, 1918||Handed over |- |{{UK-Shikari|f=p}}||destroyer||14 Jul, 1919|| |} </div name=fredbot:ships> During February and March of 1889, Doxford ran a series of successful trials of an oil-burning torpedo boat at Portsmouth. Both the torpedo boat and her engines were built by the company.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence". ''The Times''. Monday, 4 March, 1889. Issue '''32637''', col A-B, p. 7.</ref> ==See Also== {{refbegin}} {{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Doxford_%26_Sons}} {{refend}} ==Footnotes== {{reflist}} ==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} {{refend}} {{CatPrivateShipBuilder|UK}}

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