Charles Sheridan Swan is the man who gave his name to Swan Hunter

Swan Hunter

Swan Hunter, formerly known as "Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson", was one of the best known shipbuilding companies in the world. Based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, the company was responsible for some of the greatest ships of the early 20th century — most famously, the RMS Mauretania which...

, a major British

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 shipbuilder.

Career

Little is known about the early life of Charles Sheridan Swan but in 1874 he took over the management of a shipyard established in 1842 by a Mr John Coutts and by then owned by a Dr Charles Mitchell who was married to one of his (Swan's) sisters. He only managed the yard for five years as in 1879 he was killed returning from the Continent

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 on a paddle steamer

Paddle steamer

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His widow continued the business after Swan's death in partnership with George Hunter.