Temple shipbuilders

Temple shipbuilders was a family business in North East England during the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century.

Simon Temple, the Elder
Simon Temple (1728–1805) was born in Crayke, North Yorkshire. By 1780 he was advertising himself as a shipwright in South Shields.

Simon Temple, the Younger
Simon Temple (1759–1815) also born in Crayke opened a shipbuilding yard in Thrift Street, South Shields, and established a colliery in Jarrow.

William Smoult Temple
Was a shipbuilder at Jarrow (1811 - 1812).

Merchant vessels

 * Admiral Aplin, an East Indiaman
 * Admiral Gambier
 * Archduke Charles
 * Atlas
 * British Hero
 * British Tar
 * Egfrid
 * Herculean
 * Hercules
 * Imperial
 * Indian
 * Lord Cathcart
 * Lord Cathcart
 * Lord Eldon, an East Indiaman
 * Lord Melville, see HMS Porpoise (1804)
 * Malabar
 * Northumberland
 * Oswin
 * Pilot
 * Rolla
 * Warrior, see HMS Vulture (1803)

Naval vessels

 * HMS Banterer (1807), name ship of her class
 * HMS Coquette (1807), built as HMS Queen Mab but renamed
 * HMS Crocodile (1806), sixth-rate post ship
 * Pandour, renamed HMS Cossack (1806), before launch; sixth-rate
 * HMS Saldanha (1809), a frigate