Johnny Stewart, Walter Tranter and James Lindsay were all boilermakers. Thomas Freeman was a ships fireman and Walter Parks, a clerk. The team played on a strictly amateur basis for 1895 at least, with a team featuring a number of works employees. The repair yard of the Castle Shipping Line was a very near neighbour and their work team, initially known as the Castle Swifts, would informally merge with the Thames Ironworks own team. The last ship built there was the dreadnought HMS Thunderer in 1912 and the yard shut soon after. Thames Ironworks built many ships and other structures, the most famous being HMS Warrior. Thames Ironworks was based in Leamouth Wharf in Blackwall and Canning Town on both banks of the River Lea, where the Lea meets the Thames. The earliest generally accepted incarnation of West Ham United was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks F.C., the works team of the largest and last surviving shipbuilder on the Thames, Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, by foreman and local league referee Dave Taylor and owner Arnold Hills and was announced in the Thames Ironworks Gazette of June 1895. Earliest club shot, during its founding year as Thames Ironworks in 1895 West Ham adopted their claret and sky blue colour scheme in the early 1900s, with the most common iteration of a claret shirt and sky blue sleeves first emerging in 1904. The club has a long-standing rivalry with Millwall, and the fixture has gained notoriety for frequent incidents of football hooliganism. Three West Ham players were members of the 1966 World Cup finals-winning England team: captain Bobby Moore and goalscorers Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters. The club's highest league position to date came in 1985–86, when it achieved third place in the then First Division. West Ham United is one of eight club never to have fallen below the second tier of English football, spending 66 of 98 league seasons in the top flight, up to and including the 2023–24 season. The club has also won one minor European trophy by winning the Intertoto Cup in 1999. In European competitions, the club has reached three major European finals winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1965, finishing runner-up in the same competitions in 1976, and winning the second edition of the Europa Conference League in 2023. Domestically, it has been winner of the FA Cup three times (1964, 19) and runner-up twice (19). West Ham United has won five major honours in its history. In 1940, the club won the inaugural Football League War Cup. It was promoted to the top flight in 1923, when it was also losing finalist in the first FA Cup final held at Wembley. The team initially competed in the Southern League and Western League before joining the Football League in 1919. It moved to the Boleyn Ground, which remained its home ground for more than a century, in 1904. West Ham United was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. The club plays at the London Stadium, having moved from their former home, the Boleyn Ground, in 2016. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club that plays its home matches in Stratford, East London.
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