Charles Hill & Sons was a major shipbuilder based in Bristol , England , during the 19th and 20th centuries.
3-674: MV Miranda Guinness was a vessel in the Guinness shipping fleet. She was built at Charles Hill & Sons of Bristol in 1976 and named after Miranda Guinness, Countess of Iveagh . She went into service in January 1977, first sailing from Dublin Port to Runcorn and regularly plied the Dublin to Liverpool route. In 1985 the ship collided with the East Link Bridge . She was sold and scrapped in 1993 at
6-609: The Manchester Ship Canal . This article about a specific civilian ship or boat is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Charles Hill %26 Sons Established in 1845 from the company Hilhouse , they specialised mainly in merchant and commercial ships, but also undertook the building of warships and governmental vessels especially during the First and Second World Wars . The company became Charles Hill and Sons after shipwright Charles Hill, who joined
9-421: The original shipbuilder in 1824, acquired and renamed the firm in 1845. In 1879 they established Bristol City Line , a transatlantic service between Bristol and New York (BCL ceased operations after 1974). In 1881 the company built its first iron ship, and then moved into steel sailing vessels. A tugboat built by Charles Hill & Sons, MV Rozi , is now a tourist attraction - having been scuttled off
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