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Women in Shipbuilding Gallery 4: Imperial War Museum Photograph Collection

Rewriting Women into Maritime History

The female workers of Palmers Shipbuilding Co

Female workers employed by Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Company Limited to handle heavy timber beams and carry them around their shipyard at Hebburn-on-Tyne.

© Crown copyright. IWM Q 110071

Female workers of Palmers Shipbuilding Company Limited who typify the many women employed for cleaning and scrubbing on board the ships at Hebburn-on-Tyne.

© Crown copyright. IWM Q 110072

Female employees of Palmers Shipbuilding Company Limited resting and taking refreshments in one of the Women's Mess Rooms at Hebburn-on-Tyne.

© Crown copyright. IWM Q 110073

A football team (incomplete) of female employees of Palmers Shipbuilding Company Limited at Hebburn-on-Tyne called "Palmers Munitionettes".

© Crown copyright. IWM Q 110074

Female workers of Palmers Shipbuilding Company Limited at Hebburn-on-Tyne gathering up old bolts and rivets to be repaired, rescrewed and eventually reused.

© Crown copyright. IWM Q 110075

Female workers with male colleagues operating lathes and threading machines in a factory of Palmers Shipbuilding Company Limited at Hebburn-on-Tyne.

© Crown copyright. IWM Q 110076

Female workers unloading coke from railway wagons for the foundry of Palmers Shipbuilding Company Limited at Hebburn-on-Tyne.

© Crown copyright. IWM Q 110077

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