This Sunderland shipbuilding firm was founded in 1838 by George Bartram and John Lister. Their partnership was dissolved in 1852 and Bartram's son Robert Appleby Bartram

Robert Appleby Bartram (shipbuilder)

Sir Robert Appleby Bartram, JP was a British shipbuilder.Bartram was born in South Hylton, County Durham , and was the son of the shipbuilder George Bartram and his wife Margaret, née Appleby . On 28 December 1859, he married Ann Naizby at St Mary's Church, South Hylton...

 was taken into the business. On his father's retirement in 1871, Robert went into partnership with George Haswell to establish Bartram, Haswell & Co at South Dock, Sunderland. Haswell retired in 1889 and Robert Appleby Bartram's sons, George and William, joined the firm now known as Bartram & Sons. The firm became a limited company in 1922. George's sons, Robert Appleby Bartram

Robert Appleby Bartram (British Army officer)

Colonel Robert Appleby Bartram, MC, TD, DL was a British soldier and shipbuilder.-Early life:Bartram was born in Sunderland, the son of George Bartram and his wife Euphemia Walker OBE, née Rhind,...

 and George Hylton Bartram took over in 1925.

The firm was bought out by Austin & Pickersgill

A&P Group

A&P Group Ltd is the largest ship repair and conversion company in the UK, with three shipyards located in Hebburn, Middlesbrough and Falmouth. The Company undertakes a wide variety of maintenance and repair work on commercial and military ships with projects ranging from a two day alongside repair...

 in 1968 and along with that firm was nationalised in 1977

Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977

The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that nationalised large parts of the UK aerospace and shipbuilding industries and established two corporations, British Aerospace and British Shipbuilders ....

. In 1978 A&P closed Bartram's yard and transferred all work to its own yard at Southwick.