Vickers-Shipbuilding
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Description
"When Edward Vickers combined forces with his father-in-law, George Naylor in 1828, he effectively joined a business which was later to bear his name for next 158 years. Naylor had been a primary partner in Naylor & Sanderson Ltd, a steel foundry at Millsands, near Sheffield and where Edward’s brother also owned a steel rolling operation....The company continued to diversify and during the 1890s they purchased The Barrow Shipbuilding Company, as well as its subsidiary Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company. A new company was formed as Vickers, Sons and Maxim and this gave them a complete naval shipbuilding and armaments capability, something which they had lacked when competing for military orders against with the likes of Sir WG Armstrong and Company. The yard at Barrow-in-Furness became known as the ‘Naval Construction Yard’ and it was here that in 1901, they produced the Holland 1, the first submarine for the Royal Navy. ...." -
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Further information
Link: https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/heritage/vickers-shipbuilding
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Added by: Simon Cotterill
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