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A Vickers advert from 1914. The company was founded in 1871 by James Ramsden as the Iron Shipbuilding Company, but its name was soon changed to Barrow Shipbuilding Company. [1] In 1897, Vickers & Sons bought the Barrow Shipbuilding Company and its subsidiary the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company, becoming Vickers, Sons and Maxim ...
Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927. The majority of the company was nationalised in the 1960s and 1970s, with the remainder being divested as Vickers plc in 1977.
In 1927, Vickers agreed to merge their armaments and shipbuilding and heavy engineering activities with the Tyneside-based engineering company Armstrong Whitworth, founded by W. G. Armstrong, to form Vickers-Armstrongs Limited. This merger was to take effect on 1 January 1928 and would give Vickers shareholders ownership of two-thirds of the ...
The most recent Barrow-built vessel to be lost during a military campaign occurred in 1982 during the Falkland War when HMS Sheffield was attacked and sunk by the Argentine Navy. The first ship to be built in Barrow was Jane Roper , which was launched in 1852, and Barrow's first steamship, a 3,000-ton liner named Duke of Devonshire , was ...
Unruffled was ordered on 23 August 1940, as part of a batch of twelve U-class submarines [1]: 9, 115-17, 200 for construction by Vickers-Armstrong in Barrow-in-Furness. [2] The funds for her construction had been raised through the War Savings Campaign by the town of Colchester – a total of £435,233 being raised, against a target of £ ...
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Vickers, Sons & Maxim's Naval Construction Works (c. 1900) Name plate: Vickers, Sons & Maxim Wolseley Siddeley. Vickers bought out the Barrow-in-Furness shipbuilder The Barrow Shipbuilding Company in 1897, acquiring its subsidiary the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company [4] at the same time, to become Vickers, Sons & Maxim.