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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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    the west of Rosyth liesLimekilns village; to the east lies Inverkeithing town. Rosyth was founded in 1909 along with Rosyth naval dockyard, built as the...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Dreadnought was withdrawn from service in 1980.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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    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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    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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    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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  • which existed from 1992 to 2024, previously known as Rosyth Recreation Rosyth Dockyard Recreation F.C., an association football club which existed from 1916...
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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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  • 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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    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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    most recently spotted docking in the Firth of Forth in Scotland near Rosyth Dockyard and next to the Forth Bridge. Both passengers were diagnosed with symptoms...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    completion of Rosyth Dockyard), to enable dreadnoughts to be docked in Scotland. Moved to Alexandria in 1939; then in Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda, 1946-1951...
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  • serve as part of the Submarine Refit Group in Rosyth Dockyard until 2002, when nuclear refitting in Rosyth ceased. She was sold to Pounds of Portsmouth...
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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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  • 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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  • Pitreavie Castle, Rosyth Mine Countermeasures Flotilla, Royal Naval Dockyard Rosyth 1st Mine Countermeasures Squadron, RN Dockyard Rosyth with Hunt-class...
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    early childhood in Rosyth before her family moved to Dunfermline in the 1950s. Her father was a cook on a tugboat at Rosyth Dockyard and her mother was...
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    was in 2004. Illustrious underwent a 16-month £40 million refit at Rosyth Dockyard during 2010 and 2011 in preparation for her new role as a helicopter...
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  • with Easton Gibb & Son who were engaged in the construction of the Rosyth Dockyard. In July 1914, Maunsell moved to R. Thorburn and Sons as their chief...
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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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    Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently...
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  • first established in Rosyth in 1916, with an affiliated senior team being established in 1919 that were called Rosyth Dockyard Recreation. The Junior...
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