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Appledore Shipbuilders is a shipbuilder in Appledore, North Devon. ==History== The Appledore Yard was founded in 1855 on the estuary of the River Torridge.〔(Receivers to take over the yard ) BBC News, 29 September 2003〕 The Richmond Dry Dock was built in 1856 by William Yeo and named after Richmond Bay in Prince Edward Island, where the Yeo family's shipping fleet was based.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The story of the Dy Dock )〕 The business was led by Philip Kelly Harris〔(Appledore Parish Church Register of Marriages )〕 during the early part of the 20th century and known as P.K. Harris & Sons until 1963 when it became ''Appledore Shipbuilders''.〔(Tribute to British Shipbuilding and Repair Industries 1914–18, Part 2 of 3 )〕 In 1964 the Company was acquired by Court Line, a travel business.〔(James Venus: Obituary ) The Independent, 2 September 1992〕 A new shipyard was built on a greenfield site in Appledore at a cost of about £4m opened in 1970.〔 Court Line collapsed in 1974 and Appledore Shipbuilders was nationalised and subsequently subsumed into British Shipbuilders. By the late 1980s the only yards still held in state ownership were the smaller Appledore and Ferguson yards.〔(Britain misses the boat after years in the doldrums ) The Independent, 4 September 1994〕 Appledore was eventually sold to North East Shipbuilders Ltd in 1989, with the combined company renamed A&P Appledore International. In the late 1990s the two square-rigged sail training ships of the Tall Ships Youth Trust, the ''Prince William'' and the ''Stavros S Niarchos'', were completed at Appledore, by performing substantial modifications to two bare hulls begun in Germany.〔(Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World By Otmar Schäuffelen Page 159 )〕 Appledore built two ''Róisín'' class patrol boats for the Irish Naval Service: was completed in 1999 and in 2001. In 2010, Ireland ordered a further two, 90m, 23 knot offshore patrol vessels from Babcock, also to be built at Appledore. The first Samuel Beckett-class OPV was commissioned in May 2014. In June 2014, the Irish government ordered a third new ship to be built at Appledore. In October 2003, the Appledore shipyard went into receivership,〔("Appledore in receivership" ), ''Jane's Navy International'', 15 October 2003〕 and in early 2004 was acquired by DML, the operators of Devonport dockyard. 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''. 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. The Appledore yard will construct elements of the two Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers. Bow sections for were completed in April 2010 and were barged to Rosyth Dockyard for integration with other modules. The yard continues to build flight deck sponsons and centre blocks for ''Queen Elizabeth''. From 2012, Appledore will build similar sections for ''Queen Elizabeth's'' sister ship .〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Appledore Shipbuilders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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