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London, England, 1864-03-04 00:00:00

THE THAMES IRON WORKS, SHIP-
BUILDING, ENGINEERING, AND DRY DOCK
COMPANY (Limited).
Incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862.
Capital, £500,000, in 5,0, 0 Shares of £lOO each.
Deposit ZA per Share on Application, and £7 on Allot rent.
Subsequent Calls not to exceed £lO per Share, and at
intervals of not less than three months.
DIRECTORS.
PETER ROLT, Esq , Chairman,
Captain John Ford, Managing Director.
Lord Alan Spencer Churchill.
John Bonus, Esq., Cannon-street.
Frank Clark Hills, Esq., Denmark-hill.
John Stewart Margetson, Esq., Cheapside.
William Jackson, Esq., Leadenhall-street.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Prescott, Grote, Cave, and Cave, Threadneedle-
street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Newhcm, Evans, and Co., 2F, Nicholas-lane.:
BROKERS.
Messrs. Huggins and Rowsell, 1, Threadneedle-street.
AUDITORS.
3lessro. Edward and James, King-street, Cheapside.
SECRETARY.
F. J. Divers, Esq , Orchard-yard, Blackwall.
TERPORARY OFFICES.
18, King-street, Cheapside.

PROT US.
The object of this Company is SPECto purchase and extend the
well-known and f,ucc-sst ul business carried on by the Thames
Iron Works and Ship-building Company (Limited), at Black-
well.
The Thames Iron Works and Ship-building Company
(Limited), was established in the year it 6.57, and has now
attained the foremost position in the construction of vessels
of war and ships of the highest class for the commercial
marine. The iron for these vessels, and for their armour
plates, is manufactured on the premises, together with forg-
ing's and castings of the largest class for marine engines,
bridges, and other similar works. The rolling mills, steam
hammers, foundries, smiths' shops, saw mills, dm., are all of
the best class and in the highest gate of efficiency, forming
together an establishment unequalled.
Three of the largest iron-clad frigates in the British navy
—the Warrior, Valiant, and Minotaur—have been built by
the Thames Ship-building Company, and orders have been
received for iron-clad vessels for the Danish, Russian,
Spanish, and Turkish navies, some of which are now in course
of construction.
It has been determined to add to the existing. business of
the Company two other lucrative branches, namely, Graving
Docks and Engineering, which are naturally and essentially
connected with its present operations. For this purpose, as
well as for the large and increasing business of the Com-
pany, a considerable extension of capital will be required as
the works advance ' • and in order to carry out the objects in
view, it is proposed to transfer to the new Company (subject
to payment of the dividend for the past year) the whole of
the valuable contracts, assets, goodwill, and effects of the
Thames Iron Works Company, together with its liabilities
and engagements, as from the Ist of January, 1864, in consi-
deration If the payment to the Thames Iron Works Company
of the sum of £275,000, of which the Shareholders in that
Ccmpany will take £150,000 in fully paid-up Shares, and
£125,000 in Debentures of the new Company, bearing interest
at 5 per cent. per annum.
The property of the Company consists of twenty UM of
freehold land on the Essex side of the River Lea, next Black-
well, and the premises and branch works known as the
Phcenix Iron Works, Millwall, together with the valuable
plant and works.
It is proposed to const'uct two graving docks capablr of re-
ceiving ships of the largest class, for which the accommoda-
tion on the Rive* Thames is at present insufficient. For this
rnrpose it is intended to purchase eight acres of freeho'd
to!land immediate! adjoining the works, having a frontage both
ow Creek and the River Thames, which 1 nd is, at pre-
purcilausr occupation of the Company, with the option of
violultProposed new graving docks will be in the immediate
it I, of the E set and West India and Victoria Docks ; and
fionc?nfidently anticipated that from their admirable situa-
both ian,ptutand and remunerative employment for repairs,
Rs engines, wi Ibe found.
pany, Which contracts of the Thames Iron Works Com-
m upwards will be transferred to the new Comp .ny, amount
Of the worklinahmillion and a quarter sterlingfindependently
all been taken. and for the forge and rolling mills), and have
I ion of the sato: such terms as fairly to justify the anticipa-
tended the e•o,pijoiltab'e results which have already at-
All the Directorl'ars operations.
terest in the new (~,t the old Company will retain their in-
the management Iv' 1148.rtY, and their seats at its Board, and
which have hitherto oonndlint in the same experienced hands
proesed it so successfuhy, and raised
it to its present state of
allotment rf
Applications for Share, toPLeritY*
In the event of no al
_male in the anneKed form.
pa-it will be returned to full. Shares being made, the de-
Shares be allotted than are 9111 d a less number of
made available tew rds the
Da7ineoloolor, the depo it will be
thr allotment, and the
ba.ance, if anv, returned to the app
Prospeci me I and forma of apptfecscant
obtlined at the Temporary Office, of
Coomr pBahnaar,el(B,liarnbge-
street, Cheap:ide ; and of the Banker', Brokers, and Sol-

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FORM OF APPLICA'fION Pon SHY (Limited).
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Genttemen,—Having paid to your B liker:i, Me Bra. Pre •-
ab , being a
COtt, Grote, Cavo, and Cave, 'he sum of Z
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depoly 04 Zi per shire on
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allotrn&nt
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and I agree 'o accept such ,harea, or any leg; nu`rauember,
may
Porto me; and I suree to pay, he dep,o4lt on r you
lino to ign the Ar is es of A—ociation of the k 01111)&by.T:
required •' and I authorise you t) inert my name on th we
t h —e
gi,ter of Members for he number of Shares a lotted to me. -
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Date 1864