Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association

{{Infobox union

| name = Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association

| image = File:Associated_Shipwrights'_Society_emblem.jpg

| founded = 1882

| dissolved = 1963

| merged = United Society of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders and Structural Workers

| members = 19,350 (1907){{cite book|title=Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907|date=1909|publisher=Board of Trade|location=London|pages=82–101}}

| publication =

| location_country= United Kingdom

| affiliation = TUC, CSEU, Labour

| key_people =

| headquarters = 8 Eldon Square, Newcastle upon Tyne

| footnotes =

}}

The Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association (SSA) was a trade union representing shipbuilders in the United Kingdom.

History

The union was founded in 1882 as the Associated Society of Shipwrights, by eleven local unions in Scotland and North East England. Seven further unions in Scotland and North West England quickly joined the new association. The union changed its name to the Associated Shipwrights' Society, and gradually other unions around the UK affiliated.[http://www.wcml.org.uk/contents/trade-unions/shipwrights/shipwrights/ Shipconstructors and Shipwrights Association], Working Class Movement Library

In 1908, the union merged with the Ship Constructive Association and the Amalgamated Society of Drillers and Hole Cutters, and renamed itself as the Ship Constructive and Shipwrights' Association, later changing this to the "Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association". At the beginning of 1963, it merged with the United Society of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders and Structural Workers.

Election results

The union sponsored Labour Party candidates in several Parliamentary elections.{{cite book |last1=Dougan |first1=David |title=The Shipwrights |date=1975 |publisher=Frank Graham |location=Newcastle}}

class="wikitable sortable" ! Election !! Constituency !! Candidate !! Votes !! Percentage !! Position
rowspan=2\| 1906 general election	Chatham	{{sortname\|John Hagan\|Jenkins}}	6,692	62.5	1
Dundee	{{sortname\|Alexander\|Wilkie}}	6,833	23.3	2
rowspan=2\| 1910 Jan general election	Chatham	{{sortname\|John Hagan\|Jenkins}}	6,130	45.3	2
Dundee	{{sortname\|Alexander\|Wilkie}}	10,365	32.9	2
1910 Dec general election	Dundee	{{sortname\|Alexander\|Wilkie}}	8,957	29.3	2
rowspan=2\| 1918 general election	Dundee	{{sortname\|Alexander\|Wilkie}}	24,822	36.1	2
Gillingham	{{sortname\|William\|Tapp\|nolink=1}}	4,705	25.9	2
1922 general election	Perth	{{sortname\|William\|Westwood\|William Westwood, 1st Baron Westwood}}	4,651	18.9	3{{cite journal \|title=Appendix III: List of sanctioned candidates, June, 1922 \|journal=Report of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Labour Party \|date=1922 \|pages=116–126}}