{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{short description|English family business}} '''Temple shipbuilders''' was a family business in North East England during the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century.<ref name="TBS">{{cite web|title=Shipbuilder: Simon Temple (Snr & Jnr)|url=http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/TempleS.html|website=Tyne Built Ships|publisher=George Robinson and David Waller|accessdate=28 February 2016}}</ref>
==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.<ref name="TBS"/>
==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.<ref name="TBS"/>
==William Smoult Temple== Was a shipbuilder at Jarrow (1811 - 1812).
==Ships== ===Merchant vessels=== {{div col}} * {{ship||Admiral Aplin|1802 EIC ship}}, an East Indiaman * {{ship||Admiral Gambier|1807 ship}} * {{ship||Archduke Charles|1809 ship}} * {{ship||Atlas|1801 South Shields ship}} * {{ship||British Hero|1809 ship}} * {{ship||British Tar|1792 ship}} * {{ship||Egfrid|1810 ship}} * {{ship||Herculean|1799 ship}} * {{ship||Hercules|1801 ship}} * {{ship||Imperial|1802 ship}} * {{ship||Indian|1810 ship}} * {{ship||Lord Cathcart|1807 Shields ship}} * {{ship||Lord Cathcart|1808 ship}} * {{ship||Lord Eldon|1802 EIC ship}}, an East Indiaman * ''Lord Melville'', see {{HMS|Porpoise|1804}} * {{ship||Malabar|1804 ship}} * {{ship||Northumberland|1797 ship}} * {{ship||Oswin|1810 ship}} * {{ship||Pilot|1813 ship}} * {{ship||Rolla|1800 ship}} * ''Warrior'', see {{HMS|Vulture|1803|6}}
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===Naval vessels=== {{div col}} * {{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 {{div col end}}
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