PUBLIC NOTICES.

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                The Whitehaven Shipbuilding
                      Company, Limited
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       Capital - £25,000, In 250 Shares of £100
               Each, With Power to Increase

       £5 per share to be paid on Allotment, the
        remainder in Calls, as may be required.
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                             Chairman:

            G. Cavendish BENTINCK, Esq., M. P.
                      Provisional Directors:

Mr. JAmes DEES, J. P.

Major FLETCHER, J. P.

Mr. William PAITSON

Mr. John JACKSON

Mr. John WHITTLE

Capt. Thomas COWMAN

Dr. I'ANSON

Mr. John TYSON

Mr. Wm. BURNYEAT

Capt. J. R. THOMPSON

Capt. Thomas KELLY

Mr. Richard COUSINS

Mr. Robert JEFFERSON, Preston Hows

Mr. Jas. CROSTHWAITE

           With Power to add to the Number
                          Bankers
           The Bank of Whitehaven (Limited)
                        Whitehaven

                          Solicitors:
  Messrs. LUMB and HOWSON, Whitehaven

                 Broker and Secretary:
     Mr. James ROBERTSON, Whitehaven
                    Temporary Offices:
            33, Queen-street, Whitehaven

       The Company's object is to carry on at Whitehaven
the Business of Building and Repairing Vessels.

       The proposed capital is £25,000, with power to
increase as may be found necessary.

       Arrangements have been made, on a very satisfactory
basis, for a Lease of the Shipbuilding Yards at Whitehaven
excluding part of the ground required for a wet dock.

       The Lease will include the Patent-Slip in the South
Harbour.

       The greater part of the capital has been already subsc-
ribed, and persons desirous of taking Shares can obtain all
necessary information on application to the solicitors or to
the broker of the Company, from whom forms of application
for shares can be had.

       A meeting of all subscribers and of persons intending to
take shares will be held at the Globe Hotel, Whitehaven, on
Thursday next, the 7th instant, at Seven O'clock in the evening.
Whitehaven, 1st October, 1869
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                 Form of Application For Shares
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          THE WHITEHAVEN SHIPBUILDING
                    COMPANY, LIMITED

   To the Directors of the Whitehaven Shipbuilding
                        Company, Limited

Gentlemen,
      
       I request that you will allot me shares of £100
each in the Whitehaven Shipbuilding Company,
Limited; and I hereby agree to accept such shares
or any smaller number that may be allotted to me,
and authorise you to place my name upon the
Register of Shareholders for the shares so allotted.

Name in full....................
Residence......................
Profession or
Business........................
                    Date..........

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