Appledore Shipbuilders Totally Explained

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Appledore Shipbuilders is a shipbuilder in Appledore, North Devon. The Appledore Yard was founded in 1855 on the estuary of the River Torridge.
   On the privatisation of the nationalised British Shipbuilders Corporation, the Appledore Yard was acquired by a group called A & P Appledore International, formed from the former assets of Appledore and the Sunderland shipbuilders Austin & Pickersgill. A & P Appledore also acquired a number of other British Shipyards including Hall, Russell & Company in Aberdeen and the Falmouth Dock Company in Falmouth. In 1986, A & P Appledore took control of Ferguson Shipbuilders on the breakup of Ferguson-Ailsa to form Appledore Ferguson Shipbuilders. Appledore Ferguson was sold in 1989.
   In October 2003 the Appledore shipyard went into receivership, and in early 2004 was acquired by DML, the owners of Devonport dockyard. The company was reconstituted as Appledore Shipbuilders (2004) Limited and is run by the DML subsidiary DML Appledore. A & P survives as A & P Shiprepairer.
   The two square-rigged sail training ships of the Tall Ships Youth Trust, the Prince William and the Stavros S Niarchos, were completed here, by performing substantial modifications to two bare hulls begun in Germany.

Ships built at Appledore

The company has built more than 350 vessels, including small and medium-sized military craft, bulk carriers, LNG carriers, ferries, and oil-industry support vessels.
Specific ships include:

HMS Enterprise, a survey vessel
HMS Scott, a survey vessel
HMS Echo, a survey vessel (External Link)
Scillonian III, a passenger ferry
Stavros S Niarchos, a tall ship
Prince William, a tall ship
MV Clansman, a Caledonian MacBrayne ferry
MV Coruisk, a Caledonian MacBrayne ferry (External Link)
LE Róisín, an offshore patrol vessel
LÉ Niamh, an offshore patrol vessel
Charles Darwin, an oceanographic research ship
Britannia Beaver, a bulk carrier (for aggregates) (External Link)
Star Hercules, a cable layer (External Link)
City of Chichester, a dredger (External Link)
City of Cardiff, a dredger
City of Westminster, a dredger (External Link)
Arklow Bridge, a bulk carrier (External Link)
Alphagas, an LNG carrier (External Link)

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