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    Rosyth Dockyard /rəˈsaɪθ/ is a large naval dockyard on the Firth of Forth at Rosyth, Fife, Scotland, owned by Babcock Marine, which formerly undertook...
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    west of Rosyth lies Limekilns and to the east lies Inverkeithing. Rosyth was founded along with the finished construction of Rosyth Dockyard in March...
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    September 2017 at Rosyth dockyard by Queen Camilla (then the Duchess of Rothesay). On 21 December 2017, Prince of Wales was floated out of Rosyth drydock #1...
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    the last remaining Royal Dockyards (Devonport and Rosyth) were fully privatised. Most Royal Dockyards were built around docks and slips. Traditionally...
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    client), together with Rosyth Dockyard, to build the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy. Along with Rosyth and BAE Systems' Govan...
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    October 1994, after 69 patrols, and laid up at the Rosyth Dockyard. She remains in the main basin at Rosyth, intact but with her reactor defuelled; the MOD...
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    Dreadnought was withdrawn from service in 1980. Dreadnought is now at Rosyth Dockyard, laid up in afloat storage until she can be safely disposed under the...
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    Forth at Rosyth Dockyard from nine blocks built in six UK shipyards: BAE Systems Surface Ships in Glasgow, Babcock at Appledore, Babcock at Rosyth, A&P Tyne...
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    Goliath is a crane in Rosyth Dockyard, Scotland, with a lift capacity of 1,000 tonnes (980 long tons; 1,100 short tons), the largest in Britain. The Goliath...
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  • Queensferry line to Rosyth Dockyard was opened on 1 January 1918, during World War I. Twenty trains daily ran from Edinburgh to the dockyard, carrying workmen...
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    shipping and more recently protecting the upstream Forth Bridge and Rosyth Dockyard. Inchkeith has, by some accounts, been inhabited (intermittently) for...
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  • conglomerate Thorn EMI's 35 per cent stake in the Rosyth Dockyard, resulting in the creation of Babcock Rosyth Defence. In the same year, Babcock's material...
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    158. Before entering traffic, the original 22 units were modified at Rosyth Dockyard to Class 159 to operate services from London Waterloo to Salisbury...
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  • Rosyth Dockyard Recreation F.C. was a Scottish association football club, which twice played in the Scottish Cup in the 1930s. The club, from Rosyth in...
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    – The British Admiralty announces plans to build the Rosyth Dockyard as a naval base at Rosyth in Scotland. March 5 – The Ottoman Empire and the German...
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    largest cities. The world's first aircraft carriers were based at Rosyth Dockyard in Fife, where numerous trials were undertaken of aircraft landing...
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  • HMNB Clyde RNAS Culdrose RNAS Yeovilton BRNC HMS Raleigh Northwood HQ Rosyth Dockyard HMS Vulcan HMNB Devonport HMNB Portsmouth HMS Jufair Mare Harbour RAF...
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    Destroyer Squadron was based in Rosyth during the 1980s and early 1990s before being moved to Portsmouth when Rosyth Dockyard was privatised and re-purposed...
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    entering the anchorage to attack shipping or to damage the dock gate of Rosyth Dockyard. The line of concrete pylons was built from Cramond Island to the shore...
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    scrapped. The fleet was refurbished between 1991 and 1995 by Tickford at Rosyth Dockyard. From 2016 to 2018, the fleet was again refurbished at Acton Works...
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    companies across seven shipyards, with final block integration and assembly at Rosyth: BAE Systems Surface Ships – Govan (Lower Blocks 3 and 4), Scotstoun (aft...
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    erstwhile Royal Dockyard would become a Fleet Maintenance & Repair Organisation (FMRO) with a minor support and repair role (Devonport and Rosyth would take...
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  • Sea oil and gas platforms. On 7 April 2023, around 100 workers at Rosyth Dockyard belonging to Unite voted to strike between 17 April and 10 July in...
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    months at sea. In mid-2003, the ship underwent a further refit at Rosyth Dockyard. This refit involved the total rebuild of the ski jump, the adding...
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  • Pacific Theatre of World War II but used as an accommodation ship at Rosyth Dockyard. Renamed Girdle Ness, the ship was taken out of service in 1953 and...
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  • politicised battle between DML and the management of Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland. The Rosyth Dockyard already had nuclear refitting facilities under construction...
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    motors & generators business relocated to Wood Road in the nearby Rosyth dockyard. Parsons Peebles Motor & Generators was acquired by Clyde Blowers Capital...
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  • depot at Crombie and at Rosyth Dockyard; they kept their association with their local team by forming the Plymouth Argyle (Rosyth) Supporters Club and it...
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    ISBN 978-1-59114-052-8. Buxton, Ian (2019). "Rosyth Dockyard, Battleship and Dry-docking". In MacDougall, Philip (ed.). British Dockyards in the First World War. Transactions...
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  • Crosshill and Ballingry in Fife, the son of a miner and a worker at Rosyth Dockyard. He attended St Columba's Roman Catholic High School, Dunfermline....
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