Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Limited (VSEL) was a shipbuilding company based at Barrow-in-Furness, England that built warships, civilian ships, submarines and armaments. …

During the late 1980s and early 1990s whilst under the VSEL banner, Barrow continued to build submarines and warships for both the Royal Navy and multiple navies around the world.

The Barrow-in-Furness shipyard has been building submarines since Abdül Hamid was launched for the Ottoman Navy in 1886 and the Holland-class submarines for the Royal Navy were …

Feb 25, 2023 · Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Ltd, or 'VSEL', was a mighty titan of the shipbuilding world. Based in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria in northwest England, this company …

Things started bizarrely for VSEL as in 1988, a mistake by senior management and changing shipbuilding methods meant that the Vickers shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness accidentally …

The VSEL Heavy Engineering Workshop located at Michaelson Road in the Barrow Island area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England is a Grade II listed former ammunitions workshop that …

Dec 13, 2022 · Barrow and the Vickers’s name. From 1897 through to the 1970s, the Vicker’s name remained intact until it was subsumed in 1977 by British Shipbuilders and after a brief …

Jun 13, 2018 · Barrow businesses were soon struggling as the VSEL yard was brought to a standstill by a row over fixing the date of summer holidays. The industrial action was to stretch …

Privatised in 1986, the shipyard was taken over in 1995 and briefly was known as GEC Marine and Marconi Marine (VSEL) Limited, until 1999 when the shipyard became part of the new …

Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd later known as VSEL. In 1897, Vickers and Sons bought the Barrow Shipbuilding Company and its Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co, …