The Begining

As everyone knows the shipyard did not exist untill the late 1800`s

The present owner is BAE Systems,But today the shipyard is still know as 'Vickers'

1871	The Barrow Shipbuilding Company Ltd.
1897	Vickers Sons & Maxim Limited
1911	Vickers Limited
1927	Vickers Armstrongs Limited
1955	Vickers Armstrongs Shipbuilders & Vickers Armstrongs Engineers,
	Vickers Armstrongs Aircraft,Vickers Ltd, Shipbuilding group, Barrow Engineers Works.
1968	Vickers Limited Shipbuilding Group
1977	Vickers Shipbuilding Group ( A member Company of British Shipbuilders)
1981	Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Limited ( A member Company of British Shipbuilders)
PRIVATISATION
1986	Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Limited ( A subsidiary of British Shipbuilders)
1986	May, V.S.E.L. Consortium PLC.
1986	August, V.S.E.L. PLC.
1995	Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Ltd. (V.S.E.L.) A G.E.C. Marine Company
1998	September, Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Ltd. (V.S.E.L.) A Marconi Marine Company
1998	November, Marconi Marine (V.S.E.L.) Ltd.
1998	December, Marconi Naval Systems
1999	BAE Systems

There has been alot of changes to the yard over all of the years it has been opened,And they have built a lot of Boats 306 to Date (Boats being submarines)

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