John Payne Ltd
John Payne Ltd was a shipbuilder in Bristol, England, who built coastal colliers and cargo ships, and small craft such as tugs, during the 19th and 20th centuries. History Origins In around 1850, John Payne established himself as a millwright, engineer, iron founder and steam boiler maker, inland from the River Avon at Tower Hill in Bristol. In 1859, he branched out into shipbuilding, a natural expansion of his marine business, firstly completing the ''Jane'', a small wooden steam tug. This had to be launched into Bristol Harbour after transportation by truck, and she was used by the company to tow barges with machinery from the wharf near the workshops. Her small size once enabled her to save the crew of a stricken barque in Bristol Harbour. The company built three wooden tugs at Tower Hill, likely including the diminutive 11 t ''Merrimac'', and later built up the towing fleet over a number of years. Expansion Following some initial success with wooden-hulled tugs, in 1 ...
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River Avon (Bristol)
The River Avon is a river in the south west of England. To distinguish it from a number of other River Avon (other), rivers of the same name, it is often called the Bristol Avon. The name 'Avon' is a cognate of the Welsh language, Welsh word , meaning 'river'. The Avon source (river), rises just north of the village of Acton Turville in South Gloucestershire, before flowing through Wiltshire. In its lower reaches from Bath, Somerset, Bath to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth near Bristol, the river is navigable and known as the Avon Navigation. The Avon is the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, 19th longest river in the United Kingdom, at , although there are just as the crow flies between the source and its mouth in the Severn Estuary. The Drainage basin, catchment area is . Etymology The name "Avon" is a cognate of the Welsh language, Welsh word ''afon'' "river", both being derived from the Common Brittonic , "river". "River Avon (other), River A ...
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