Consolidation and rationalisation: a 25-year journey

摘要

A quarter of a century ago, just a few months ahead of the fall of the Berlin Wall and tumultuous change across eastern Europe, the UK still had four major privately owned shipyards involved in, or bidding for, RN surface ship orders: Swan Hunter Shipbuilders on Tyneside; Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd (VSEL) in Barrow-in-Furness; Vosper Thornycroft in Southampton; and GEC-owned Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd in Scotstoun.