Barrow-in-Furness Harbor
The Port of Barrow is the port of the city of Barrow-in-Furness , Cumbria in England . The Morecambe Bay is southeast of the harbor and the Irish Sea encircles them in the south and west. The port is currently owned by Associated British Ports Holdings , which also operates it. Small parts of the port area belong to BAE Systems Submarine Solutions .
The port is largely a docking port , i.e. that is, it lies behind a lock and its water level is not influenced by the tides . There are six docks in the port area: Devonshire Dock, Buccleuch Dock, Ramsden Dock and Anchor Line Base are behind the lock (Ramsden Dock Lock), the Ramsden Dock Basin is outside and is the entrance to the lock. There is a RoRo system here. The Cavendish Dock is also located in the port area, which is a water reservoir that is not used as a port. On the banks of the Walney Channel, there are former moorings 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 . Barrow Harbor has built over 800 ships throughout its history and is now the only place where submarines are built in Britain. The port has an important role in the nuclear plant of Sellafield , the power plant of Roosecote, the gas terminal of Rampside and offshore wind farms Barrow and Ormonde . The port of Barrow is also used by cruise ships.
history
That on the peninsula Furness promoted iron ore has been since 1846 by the Furness Railway to the port at Roa Iceland transported. Located between Barrow Island, which was still a real island at the time, and the town of Barrow-in-Furness, the port was built between 1867 and 1881 and replaced the port on Roa Island.
The first ship built in Barrow, the Jane Roper, was launched in 1852. On February 18, 1871 , the Barrow Shipbuilding Company was founded and with it the shipbuilding industry in Barrow grew. In 1873 the first steamship, the Duke of Devonshire , was built in Barrow. In 1897 the Barrow Shipbuilding Company was taken over by the Vickers steel company and shipbuilding became the city's largest employer. 1901 was 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 weapons submarine of the British Navy. Submarines of the Swiftsure class , the Trafalgar-class and Vanguard-class submarine were also built in Barrow. With the end of the Cold War , shipbuilding in Barrow was greatly reduced in the first half of the 1990s.
The Devonshire Dock Hall , built in 1986, is the tallest building in Cumbria with a height of 51 meters and one of the largest shipbuilding halls in the world with a floor area of 25,000 square meters.
Web links
- Barrow Harbor on Industries of Cumbria
- The Submarine Heritage Center Barrow in Furness
- Devonshire Dock Hall
Coordinates: 54 ° 6 '28.7 " N , 3 ° 13' 43.8" W.