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{{Infobox port
| name             = Port of Barrow
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[[File:Princess Selandia, Barrow Quay.jpg|thumb|{{ship||Princess Selandia}}, an entertainment ship previously berthed in [[Buccleuch Dock]]]]

The '''Port of Barrow''' refers to the enclosed [[Dock (maritime)|dock]] system within the town of [[Barrow-in-Furness]], [[England]]. [[Morecambe Bay]] is to the east of the port and the [[Irish Sea]] surrounds it to the south and west. The port is currently owned and operated by [[Associated British Ports Holdings]], but some land is shared with [[BAE Systems Submarine Solutions]]. Currently consisting of four large docks, the Port of Barrow is one of [[North West England]]'s most important ports. The docks are as follows: [[Buccleuch Dock]], [[Cavendish Dock]], [[Devonshire Dock]] and [[Ramsden Dock]]. The port of Barrow is the only [[deep water port]] between the [[River Mersey|Mersey]] and the [[River Clyde|Clyde]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lake-district-peninsulas.co.uk/cruise-ships.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123092745/http://www.lake-district-peninsulas.co.uk/cruise-ships.htm |archive-date=23 January 2010 |title=Barrow-in-Furness, Britain's Newest Cruise Liner Port and Gateway to the English Lake District by Sea |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=lake-district-peninsulas.co.uk |access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref>

Barrow shipyard is one of the largest in the United Kingdom (it has built [[List of ships and submarines built in Barrow-in-Furness|well over 800 vessels]] in its history), rivalled only by those in [[Belfast]], [[Birkenhead]] and [[Govan]]. It is also home to the country's only [[submarine]] production facility. The port is heavily involved with the transportation of natural gases and other forms of energy from local sites such as [[Sellafield]], [[Barrow Offshore Wind]]farm, [[Ormonde Wind Farm]], [[Rampside Gas Terminal]] and [[Roosecote Power Station]]. Barrow is also becoming increasingly popular as a port of call for cruise liners visiting the town and the [[Lake District]].<ref name="ABP Barrow"/> [[James Fisher & Sons]] are the main company to operate out of the port.

==History==
{{see also|Barrow Hematite Steel Company|Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering}}
[[File:Barrow Works 1890.jpg|thumb|The Port of Barrow and the town's shipyard about 1890]]

Barrow has a long and complex history of shipbuilding and maritime trade. In the late 19th century, the town had the largest [[steelworks]] on Earth, and the Port of Barrow was the main route used to transport the steel produced in the town.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/about_us/ironbridge_archaeology/projects/barrow/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819160207/http://www.ironbridge.org.uk/about_us/ironbridge_archaeology/projects/barrow/ |archive-date=19 August 2007 |title=Ironbridge Gorge Museum - Barrow |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=ironbridge.org.uk |access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref> Historically, the Port of Barrow and BAE cover a large area, so that Barrow is one of the country's largest shipbuilding centres. Hundreds of [[warships]], [[aircraft carriers]], [[cruise liners]], [[ferries]] and [[submarines]] have been constructed in Barrow, which remains the only operational submarine production facility in the UK.<ref>[http://www.competition-commission.gov.uk/rep_pub/reports/1995/fulltext/365a4.8.pdf Effects on employment of the closure of VSEL or YSL] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928011251/http://www.competition-commission.gov.uk/rep_pub/reports/1995/fulltext/365a4.8.pdf |date=28 September 2007 }}</ref> A 1936 [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway|LMS]] advert said that their {{convert|300|acre}} of water and {{convert|400|acre}} of quays handled 375,000 tons of cargo per year.<ref>Railway Magazine August 1936 page vii</ref> The port's busiest year was 1956, when 1,155,076 tonnes of [[iron ore]] alone were exported.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/ports.htm#barrow |title = Ports and Harbours &#124; Industrial History of Cumbria}}</ref>

In 1839 [[Henry Schneider]] arrived at Barrow-in-Furness as a young speculator and dealer in iron, and in 1850 he discovered large deposits of [[haematite]]. He and other investors founded the [[Furness Railway]], the first section of which opened in 1846 to transport the ore from the slate quarries at [[Kirkby-in-Furness]] and haematite mines at [[Lindal-in-Furness]] to a deep water harbour near [[Roa Island]].<ref name="railway">{{cite web | url =http://www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk/frco.htm | title = History of the Furness Railway Company | publisher = The Furness Railway Trust | access-date = 18 February 2010}}</ref> The docks built between 1867 and 1881 in the more sheltered channel between the mainland and [[Barrow Island (England)|Barrow Island]] replaced the port at Roa Island. The increasing quantities of iron ore mined in Furness were then brought to Barrow to be transported by sea. The sheltered strait between Barrow and Walney Island was an ideal location for the shipyard. The first ship to be built, ''Jane Roper'', was [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] in 1852; the first steamship, a 3,000-ton liner named ''Duke of Devonshire'', in 1873. Shipbuilding activity increased, and on 18 February 1871 the Barrow Shipbuilding Company was incorporated. Barrow's relative isolation from the United Kingdom's industrial heartlands meant that the newly-formed company included several capabilities that would usually be subcontracted to other establishments. In particular, a large engineering works was constructed, including a foundry and pattern shop, a forge, and an engine shop. In addition, the shipyard had a joiners' shop, a boat-building shed and a sailmaking and rigging loft.<ref name="barrow-works">{{cite book | last = The Naval and Armaments Company Limited | title = The Works at Barrow-in-Furness of The Naval Construction and Armaments Company Limited - Historical and Descriptive | publisher = The Naval and Armaments Company Limited, partly reprinted from 'Engineering' magazine | year = 1896 | location = Barrow-in-Furness | page = 54 }}</ref>

The Barrow Shipbuilding Company was taken over by the Sheffield steel firm of [[Vickers]] in 1897, by which time the shipyard had surpassed the railway and steelworks as the largest employer and landowner in Barrow. The company constructed [[Vickerstown]], modelled on George Cadbury's [[Bournville]], on the adjacent Walney Island in the early 20th century to house its employees.<ref>{{cite news | first=Frank | last=Partridge | title=The Complete Guide to: England's Islands | date=16 March 2006 | publisher=Independent News & Media | url=http://travel.independent.co.uk/uk/article351869.ece | work=The Independent | access-date=18 February 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927211406/http://travel.independent.co.uk/uk/article351869.ece | archive-date=27 September 2007 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> It also commissioned [[Sir Edwin Lutyens]] to design [[Abbey House, Barrow-in-Furness|Abbey House]] as a guest house and residence for its managing director, Commander Craven.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/committee.asp?ClubCtteeID=2939&ClubID=1734 |title=The Rotary Club of Furness |access-date=10 August 2007 |publisher=The Rotary Club of Great Britain |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021131506/http://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/committee.asp?ClubCtteeID=2939&ClubID=1734 |archive-date=21 October 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> By the 1890s the shipyard was heavily engaged in the construction of warships for the Royal Navy and also for export. The Royal Navy's first submarine, {{ship||Holland 1}}, was built in 1901,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.submarineheritage.com/history.html | title=Submarine History of Barrow-in-Furness | publisher=Submarine Heritage Centre | access-date=18 February 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704042341/http://www.submarineheritage.com/history.html# | archive-date=4 July 2007 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> and by 1914 the UK had the most advanced submarine fleet in the world, with 94% of it constructed by Vickers. Well-known ships built in Barrow include {{ship|Japanese battleship|Mikasa||2}}, the Japanese [[flagship]] during the 1905 [[Russo-Japanese War]], the liner {{SS|Oriana|1959|2}} and the aircraft carriers {{HMS|Invincible|R05|6}} and {{HMAS|Melbourne|R21|6}}. During World War II, Barrow was a target for the [[Luftwaffe|German Air Force]] looking to disable the town's shipbuilding capabilities (see [[Barrow Blitz]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/september2.html |title=The Battle of Britain - Diary - 2 September 1940 |access-date=18 February 2010 |date=16 February 2005 |publisher=RAF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070815202245/http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/september2.html# |archive-date=15 August 2007 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Barrow's industry continued to supply the war effort. Winston Churchill once visited the town to launch the aircraft carrier {{HMS|Indomitable|R92|6}}.<ref name="dock">{{cite web |url= http://www.dockmuseum.org.uk/docs/Publication%20world%20war%20II-web.pdf|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070813205557/http://www.dockmuseum.org.uk/docs/Publication%20world%20war%20II-web.pdf|url-status= dead|archive-date= 13 August 2007|title= World War II|access-date=18 February 2010|date=16 February 2005 |publisher= [[Dock Museum]]}}</ref> After a rapid decline in the town's steel industry, shipbuilding quickly became Barrow's largest and most important industry. From the 1960s onwards it concentrated its efforts in submarine manufacture, and the UK's first [[Nuclear marine propulsion|nuclear-powered]] submarine, {{HMS|Dreadnought|S101|6}} was constructed in 1960. {{HMS|Resolution|S22|6}}, the {{Sclass|Swiftsure|submarine|5}}, {{Sclass|Trafalgar|submarine|5}} and {{Sclass|Vanguard|submarine|0}} submarines all followed.

The end of the [[Cold War]] in 1991 marked a reduction in the demand for military ships and submarines, and the town continued its decline. The shipyard's dependency on military contracts at the expense of civilian and commercial engineering and shipbuilding meant it was particularly hard hit as government defence spending was reduced dramatically.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mort |first1=Maggie |last2=Graham |first2=Spinardi |year=2004 |title=Defence and the decline of UK mechanical engineering: the case of Vickers at Barrow |journal=Business History |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=1–22 |doi=10.1080/00076790412331270099|s2cid=153992331 }}</ref> The workforce shrank from 14,500 in 1990 to 5,800 in February 1995.<ref>{{Citation | publisher = [[Competition Commission]] | title = Views of main parties as part of report into British Aerospace PLC proposed merger with VSEL | date = 23 May 1995 | url = http://www.competition-commission.gov.uk/rep_pub/reports/1995/fulltext/365c5.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110520023806/http://www.competition-commission.gov.uk/rep_pub/reports/1995/fulltext/365c5.pdf | archive-date = 20 May 2011 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> The rejection by the [[Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering|VSEL]] management of detailed plans for Barrow's industrial renewal in the mid-to-late 1980s remains controversial.<ref>{{cite book |last= Mort|first= Maggie|title= Building the Trident Network|year= 2002|publisher= [[MIT Press]]|isbn= 0-262-13397-0}}</ref> This has led to interest in the possibilities of converting military-industrial production in declining shipbuilding areas to the offshore renewable energy sector.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.basicint.org/nuclear/beyondtrident/oceans.pdf|title= Oceans of Work: Arms Conversion Revisited|access-date=25 August 2007 |last= Schofield|first= Steven|date=January 2007|publisher= [[British American Security Information Council]] |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070710111238/http://www.basicint.org/nuclear/beyondtrident/oceans.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 10 July 2007}}</ref>

==The port today==
[[File:Steamer Street, Barrow.jpg|thumb|Many of the tenements built in the late 1800s on [[Barrow Island, England|Barrow Island]] for dock workers are [[Listed buildings in Barrow-in-Furness|listed buildings]]]]

===Exports and imports===
The port of Barrow has seen a big decrease in trade since steel production in the town halted; but many local businesses rely heavily on the port to import and export goods.<ref name="ABP Barrow">{{cite news|url=http://www.abports.co.uk/custinfo/ports/barrow.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081107213854/http://www.abports.co.uk/custinfo/ports/barrow.htm |archive-date=7 November 2008 |title=Port of Barrow: Port Home |publisher=Associated British Port Holdings |access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref> Some 41,000 tonnes of [[wood pulp]] per year are now imported here from [[Flushing, Netherlands]], and  transported to the larger [[Kimberly-Clark]] plant in [[Ormsgill]]. The port of Barrow also exports locally quarried limestone to parts of [[Scandinavia]] to be used in the paper industry and in the production of industrial gases. There is also a well-established rail link which was originally built as part of the [[Furness Line]].<ref name="ABP Barrow"/>

The port plays a major role in the region's energy production.<ref name="ABP Exports"/> British Gas Hydrocarbon Resources Limited operates a condensate-storage site in Ramsden Dock, through which the liquid by-product of gas production at the nearby [[Rampside Gas Terminal]] is exported.<ref name="ABP Barrow"/> The [[Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited|PNTL]] vessel ''Pacific Heron'' is based at the port of Barrow, and is used to transport nuclear material between nearby [[Sellafield]] and [[Japan]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sellafieldsites.com/UserFiles/File/Sellafield%20News/Sellafield%20News%2018_06_08.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=19 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716035055/http://www.sellafieldsites.com/UserFiles/File/Sellafield%20News/Sellafield%20News%2018_06_08.pdf |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The port also played an important role in the construction of the [[Barrow Offshore Wind|Barrow Offshore Wind Farm]], which was completed in 2006. Resources and materials were stored at the dock before being shipped to the wind farm site on [[Morecambe Bay]]. The turbines and energy produced are still strongly associated{{clarify|date=November 2016}} with the port.<ref name="ABP Exports"/> There are {{convert|20|hectare|lk=in|0}} of storage space within the port, owned by Associated British Ports.<ref name="ABP Facilities">{{cite web |url=http://www.abports.co.uk/custinfo/ports/barrow/commodities.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121014944/http://www.abports.co.uk/custinfo/ports/barrow/facilities.htm |archive-date=21 November 2008 |title=Port of Barrow: Facilities |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=abports.co.uk |access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref> They also own a multi-purpose vessel, ''Furness Abbey'', which is available for hire.<ref name="ABP Facilities"/> There are many cranes in Barrow's dockland. The majority are owned by BAE, and ABP only operates one 120-tonne quayside crane.<ref name="ABP Facilities"/> The maximum dimensions of vessels that can dock in Barrow are {{convert|200|m|ft|abbr=on|0}} length by {{convert|35|m|ft|abbr=on|0}} [[Beam (nautical)|beam]] and {{convert|10|m|ft|abbr=on|0}} [[Draft (hull)|draught]].<ref name="ABP Facilities"/>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Significant exports
|-
! Material/ Product
! Annual amount handled
! Notes
|-
| [[Nuclear material]], [[oil]], [[Natural gas|gas]] and [[renewable energy]]
|
| <ref name="ABP Exports">{{cite web |url=http://www.abports.co.uk/custinfo/ports/barrow/commodities.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121014420/http://www.abports.co.uk/custinfo/ports/barrow/commodities.htm |archive-date=21 November 2008 |title=Port of Barrow: Commodities |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=abports.co.uk |access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref>
|-
| [[Limestone]] and [[granite]]
|
| <ref name="ABP Exports"/>
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Significant imports
|-
! Material/ Product
! Annual amount handled
! Notes
|-
| [[Granite]], [[sand]] and [[Construction aggregate|aggregates]]
| 100,000+ tonnes
| <ref name="ports.co.uk">{{cite web |url=http://www.ports.co.uk/news20075613.htm |title=ABP's north-west ports report solid performance in 2006 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=21 February 2007 |website=abports.co.uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822154538/http://www.abports.co.uk/news20075613.htm |archive-date=22 August 2007 |access-date=13 March 2019}}
http://www.ports.co.uk/news20075613.htm</ref>
|-
| [[Wood pulp]]
| 41,000 tonnes
| <ref name="ports.co.uk"/>
|}

===Cruise ships===
[[File:TahitianPrincess.jpg|thumb|''[[Ocean Princess (ship)|Tahitian Princess]]'' visited Barrow in 2009]]
Barrow itself has relatively few nearby tourist spots ([[Furness Abbey]], [[South Lakes Safari Zoo]] and the [[Dock Museum]]), but it is quite close to the [[Lake District]], and has been nicknamed "The Gateway to the Lakes". Barrow is the principal port serving Cumbria and the Lake District, and has been a port of call for several cruise ships in recent years.<ref name="ABP Barrow"/> A new purpose-built cruise ship terminal alongside [[Walney Channel]] was proposed as part of the multi-million pound waterfront development (see the 'Future' heading). This was subsequently removed from the plans.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Cruise ships that have called at the port of Barrow since 2000
|-
! Name
! Operator
! Date visited
! Notes
|-
| ''Ocean Majesty''
| Page & Moy
| 
| <ref name="ABP Cruise liners"/>
|-
| {{MS|Silver Wind||2}}
| [[Silversea Cruises]]
| 
| <ref name="ABP Cruise liners"/>
|-
| {{MV|Black Prince|1966|2}}
| [[Fred. Olsen & Co.]]
| June 2003
| <ref name="ABP 2">{{cite news |url=http://www.abport.co.uk/news2003379.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050215232655/http://www.abports.co.uk/news2003379.htm |archive-date=15 February 2005 |title=Sound first half of the year for ABP's north-west ports |date=3 September 2003 |publisher=Associated British Port Holdings |access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{MS|Arion||2}}
| Arcalia Shipping
| August 2003
| <ref name="ABP 2"/>
|-
| ''[[MV Royal Princess (2007)|Minerva II]]''
| [[Swan Hellenic]]
| September 2004
| <ref name="ABP Minerva II">{{cite news |url=http://www.ports.co.uk/news20043502.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040913221928/http://www.abports.co.uk/news20043502.htm |archive-date=13 September 2004 |title=ABP Barrow welcomes wise goddess of the waves |date=2 September 2004 |publisher=Associated British Port Holdings |access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{MS|Deutschland||2}}
| [[Peter Deilmann Cruises]]
| May 2005
| <ref name="ABP Cruise liners">{{cite news |url=http://www.ports.co.uk/news20065153.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108042004/http://www.abports.co.uk/news20065153.htm |archive-date=8 January 2009 |title=Cruise ship Deutschland returns to warm welcome in Barrow |date=1 June 2006 |publisher=Associated British Port Holdings|access-date=19 February 2010}}</ref>
|-
| ''Deutschland''
| Peter Deilmann Cruises
| June 2006
| <ref name="ABP Cruise liners"/>
|-
| ''[[Ocean Princess (ship)|Tahitian Princess]]''
| [[Princess Cruises]]
| May 2009
| <ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/review_of_the_year_1_654508?referrerPath=1.51019# |title=Review of the year |work=North West Evening Mail |date=4 January 2010 |access-date=13 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605084009/http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/review_of_the_year_1_654508?referrerPath=1.51019# |archive-date=5 June 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
|-
| {{MV|Adonia||2}}
| [[P&O Cruises]]
| June 2014
| <ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Luxury cruise ship Adonia docks at Barrow |url=http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/luxury-cruise-ship-adonia-docks-at-barrow-1.1143834 |work=North West Evening Mail |date=23 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625075912/http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/luxury-cruise-ship-adonia-docks-at-barrow-1.1143834 |archive-date=25 June 2014 |access-date=13 March 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{MV|Saga Pearl II||2}}
| [[Saga Cruises]]
| July 2016
|
|-
|}

==Future==
{{main|The Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness}}

==Gallery==
<gallery caption="Port of Barrow">
File:BAE Systems from Walney.jpg|[[Devonshire Dock Hall]] is one of the world's largest shipbuilding halls.
File:DockMuseum.jpg|The [[Dock Museum]] is built on top of a former dock.
File:Warships barrow dock.jpg|Three {{Sclass|Nakhoda Ragam|corvette|1}}s built for the Brunei Navy, but never delivered, berthed at the port of Barrow
File:Buccleuch Dock, Barrow-in-Furness - geograph.org.uk - 158316.jpg|[[Buccleuch Dock]]
File:Cavendish Dock, Barrow from railway sidings - geograph.org.uk - 34423.jpg|[[Cavendish Dock]]
File:Ramden Dock, Barrow.jpg|[[Ramsden Dock]]
File:Hertfordshire tanker, Barrow Docks.jpg|Tanker, ''Hertfordshire'' in Anchor Line Basin
</gallery>
<gallery caption="Vessels associated with the port">
File:Oriana Tonga 1985.jpg|{{SS|Oriana|1959|6}}, a Barrow-built ocean liner
File:HMSBulwarkL15.jpg|{{HMS|Bulwark|L15|6}}, one of the more recent Royal Navy vessels constructed in Barrow
File:HMS Invincible (R05).jpg|One of the town's most famous ships, {{HMS|Invincible|R05|6}}
File:Astute2cropped.jpg|{{HMS|Astute|S119|6}} during launch into Devonshire Dock
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[The Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness]]
* [[Barrow-in-Furness]]
* [[List of seaports]]
* [[List of ships and submarines built in Barrow-in-Furness]]

===Companies associated with the port===
* [[Associated British Ports Holdings]]
* [[James Fisher & Sons]]
* [[BAE Systems Submarine Solutions]]
* [[Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering]]
* [[Vickers-Armstrongs]]
* [[Kimberly-Clark]]
* [[BNFL]]
* [[DONG Energy]]
* [[Centrica]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official|https://www.abports.co.uk/locations/barrow/}}
{{Barrow-in-Furness topics}}
{{Barrow-in-Furness}}
{{UK Docks}}
{{Associated British Ports}}

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