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Ship-building yard, showing cantilever cranes. Barrow-in-Furness
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| Date Posted: | The shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness was incorporated as a limited company 1871 by James Ramsden as the Iron Shipbuilding Company, but its name was soon changed to Barrow Shipbuilding Company. In 1897, Vickers & Sons bought the Barrow Shipbuilding Company and its subsidiary the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company, becoming Vickers, Sons and Maxim, Limited. The shipyard at Barrow became the Naval Construction & Armaments Company. In 1911 the company was renamed Vickers Ltd, and in 1927 became Vickers Armstrongs Ltd after a merger with Armstrong Whitworth, whose shipyard at High Walker on the River Tyne became the 'Naval Yard'. In 1955 the name of the shipbuilding division changed to Vickers Armstrongs Shipbuilders, Ltd and changed again in 1968 to Vickers Limited Shipbuilding Group. The shipbuilding group was nationalised under the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act in 1977 and subsumed into British Shipbuilders. The ex-Vickers yard at Barrow was the first shipyard of the British Shipbuilders group to return to the private sector. It was sold in March 1986 to an employee-led company, VSEL Consortium, which also included its Birkenhead-based subsidiary, Cammell Laird. The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in December 1986. Following GEC's purchase VSEL became Marconi Marine-, part of the company's GEC-Marconi division. With the merger of British Aerospace and GEC's defence business – Marconi Electronic Systems – VSEL passed to the resulting company, BAE Systems as part of BAE Systems Marine. It is now known as BAE Systems The shipyard has built a large number of ships during its existence, specialising in warships but also building commercial vessels and ocean liners, and also armaments . It also has a record of building submarines, of which it is now the sole UK builder. | |
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| Receivers Name: | Mr A. W. Ritchie | |
| Address: | 6, Cross Flat Crescent | |
| Town or City: | Paisley | |
| Country: | Scotland | |