Port of Barrow

The port of Barrow is the port of the town of Barrow -in- Furness, Cumbria in England. The Morecambe Bay is located southeast of the port and the Irish Sea surrounds it to the south and west. The port is currently one of the Associated British Ports Holdings, which also operates it. Small parts of the harbor area include BAE Systems Submarine Solutions.

The harbor is mostly a dock port, that is, it is behind a lock and its water level is not affected by the tides. In the port area there are six docks Devonshire Dock, Buccleuch Dock, Ramsden Dock and Anchor Line base located behind the lock ( Ramsden Dock Lock ) which is Ramsden Dock Basin and is outside the entrance to the lock. Here is a RoRo facility. Furthermore, the Cavendish Dock is located in the port area, in which there is a Wasserseservoir, which is not used as a port. On the shore of Walney Channels are former berths outside the lock.

The port is the only deep water port on the west coast of the United Kingdom between the Port of Liverpool and the port of Glasgow. In the port of Barrow 's history were built more than 800 ships in the course and it is today the only place to be built in the U- boats in the UK. The port has an important role for the nuclear plant at Sellafield, the powerhouse of Roosecote, the gas terminal at Rampside and Barrow offshore wind farms and Ormonde. The port of Barrow is also run from cruise ships.

History

The produced on the Furness peninsula iron ore was promoted since 1846 by the Furness Railway to the port at Roa Iceland. The contract between the Barrow Iceland, which was then still a real island, and the town of Barrow-in- Furness located harbor was built in 1867-1881 and replaced the port at Roa Island.

The first ship built in Barrow, the Jane Roper had run in 1852 from the stack. On February 18, 1871, the Barrow Shipbuilding Company was founded, and thus the shipbuilding grew up in Barrow. In 1873 the first steamboat, the Duke of Devonshire, built in Barrow. 1897, the Barrow Shipbuilding Company was taken over by the steel company and the Vickers Shipbuilding was the largest employer in the city. In 1901, the first submarine of the Royal Navy, HMS Holland 1, built in Barrow, as well as 1960, the HMS Dreadnought, the first British submarine with nuclear propulsion and the HMS Resolution, the first equipped with nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy. U- boats of the Swiftsure - class, Trafalgar - class and Vanguard - class were also built in Barrow. The end of the Cold War, the shipbuilding in Barrow has been greatly reduced in the first half of the 1990s.

The built 1986 Devonshire Dock Hall is the tallest building in Cumbria and with a floor area of 25,000 square meters, one of the largest shipbuilding halls in the world with a height of 51 m.