Appledore Shipbuilders

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History

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Appledore shipyard
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The shipyard's cranes
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Bow section of HMS Queen Elizabeth at Appledore in March 2010

The Appledore Yard was founded in 1855 on the estuary of the River Torridge.[1] The Richmond Dry Dock was built in 1856 by William Yeo and named after Richmond Bay on the north coast of Prince Edward Island in Canada, where the Yeo family's shipping fleet was based.[2]

The business was led by Philip Kelly Harris[3] during the early part of the 20th century and known as P.K. Harris & Sons until 1963, when it became Appledore Shipbuilders.[4]

During World War II, P.K. Harris & Sons built a variety of small vessels for the Royal Navy, primarily coastal craft. These included Fairmile B motor launches ML 128, ML 152, ML 184, ML 233, ML 263, ML 279, ML 304 and ML 451; Fairmile D motor gun boats (later re-classed as motor torpedo boats) MGB 618, MGB 627, MGB 642, MTB 665, MTB 687, MTB 702, MTB 723, MTB 757, MTB 788 and MTB 5021; and (armed) motor fishing vessels MFV 794 and MFV 795.

In 1964 the company was acquired by Court Line, a shipping and airline business.[5] A new shipyard was built on a greenfield site in Appledore at a cost of about £4m, opening for business in 1970.[5] Court Line collapsed in 1974 and Appledore Shipbuilders was nationalised, subsequently being subsumed into British Shipbuilders. By the late 1980s the only yards still held in state ownership were the smaller Appledore and Ferguson yards.[6] In 1989, Appledore Shipbuilders was sold to Langham Industries.[7]

In the late 1990s the two square-rigged sail training ships of the Tall Ships Youth Trust, the Prince William and the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., were completed at Appledore, by performing substantial modifications to two bare hulls begun in Germany.[8]

Appledore built two Róisín-class patrol boats for the Irish Naval Service: Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". was completed in 1999 and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". in 2001. In 2010, Ireland ordered a further two, Script error: No such module "convert"., Script error: No such module "convert". offshore patrol vessels from Babcock with an option for a third, to be built at Appledore. The first Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".s was commissioned in May 2014. In June 2014, the Irish government took up the option for the third ship to be built at Appledore (delivered in 2016) and ordered a fourth in 2016 (delivered in 2018).[9]

In October 2003, the Appledore shipyard went into receivership,[10] and in early 2004 was acquired by DML, the operators of Devonport dockyard.[11] The company was reconstituted as Appledore Shipbuilders (2004) Limited and was run by the DML subsidiary DML Appledore. During this period the yard's main activity was the installation of machinery packages and other systems for luxury yachts for Devonport Yachts Ltd.[12]

In June 2007, Babcock International Group acquired DML, including its operations at the Appledore Shipyard, renaming them Babcock Marine Appledore. A Royal Navy contract secured 300 jobs in Appledore until 2015.[13] The Appledore yard constructed elements of the two Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".s. Bow sections for Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". were completed in April 2010 and were barged to Rosyth Dockyard for integration with other modules.[14] The yard then built flight deck sponsons and centre blocks for Queen Elizabeth.[15] From 2012, Appledore built similar sections for Queen ElizabethTemplate:'s sister ship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"..[15]

Babcock announced in November 2018 that it had no future for the shipyard, which closed on 15 March 2019. The last vessel to be built at the yard was the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., an Irish Naval Service vessel.[16][17][18]

In August 2020, InfraStrata (owners of Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff) bought the dormant shipyard for £7 million.[19] The deal saw the shipyard renamed H&W Appledore.[20]

In July 2022, the shipyard won a £55 million contract to refit former Royal Navy mine-hunting ship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". which is expected to be passed to the Lithuanian navy in 2024.[21]

Ships built at Appledore

The company built more than 350 vessels, including small and medium-sized military craft, bulk carriers, LPG carriers, superyachts, ferries, and oil-industry support vessels. Specific ships include: Script error: No such module "Hatnote".

Survey vessels
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Tall ships
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  • Prince William
Superyachts
Ferries
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  • Shannon Dolphin[26]
  • Shannon Breeze[27]
Aircraft carriers
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Patrol vessels
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Research ships
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Commercial vessels
  • Manchester Vigour, a container ship
  • Manchester Zeal, a container ship
  • Seamark, a pilot cutter for Swansea Bay
  • Wimpey Seadog, supply vessel
  • Craigdarragh, a tug boat
  • Alphagas, an LPG carrier
  • Betagas, an LPG carrier
  • Deltagas, an LPG carrier
  • Arklow Bridge, a bulk carrier
  • Star Hercules[29]
  • Suffolk Chieftain, a fishing vessel
  • Toisa Coral, an offshore supply vessel
  • Toisa Crest, an offshore supply vessel
  • Toisa Conqueror, an offshore supply vessel
  • Ikar, a tug boat
  • Elkhound, a tug boat
Dredgers
  • City of Chichester[30]
  • City of Cardiff
  • City of Westminster
  • City of London[31]
  • Cherry Sand[32]
  • Arco Avon
  • Arco Arun
  • Arco Axe
  • Arco Adur
  • Britannia Beaver[33]
  • UKD Marlin[34]

References

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  4. ↑ Tribute to British Shipbuilding and Repair Industries 1914–18, Part 2 of 3
  5. ↑ a b James Venus: Obituary The Independent, 2 September 1992
  6. ↑ Britain misses the boat after years in the doldrums The Independent, 4 September 1994
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  10. ↑ "Appledore in receivership", Jane's Navy International, 15 October 2003
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  18. ↑ North Devon Shipbuilding Ends Ships Monthly July 2019 page 8
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