British Shipbuilders

British Shipbuilders Corporation was a British shipyard group of, as a public corporation, from 1977 to 1983 almost all British owned shipbuilding companies and managed.

Background

The composite was created in 1977 as a result of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 Act mentioned, according to which all major shipbuilding companies in the UK were nationalized. The same law nationalized by analogy the three major British aircraft manufacturer, and summed them together in the British Aerospace.

Harland & Wolff, Northern Ireland as the only shipyard was treated as a political special case and remained, despite its legal membership of the composite, under its own management.

Originally the British Shipbuilders Corporation was divided into four sectors of industry, from 1980 there were five, merchant shipbuilding, warship, ship design, ship repair and offshore area. As of April 1981 British Shipbuilders was reorganized in the light of further shrinking British shipbuilding.

In the years from 1983, summarized in the British Shipbuilders composite shipyards were privatized under the conditions of British Shipbuilders Act 1983 again. The various State administration and organization departments of the British Shipbuilders Corporation was dissolved during the 1980s.

Employment numbers selected British shipyards

List of Shipyards in British Shipbuilders composite

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