BAE is closing Portsmouth shipyard – but it could have been different if successive governments had guided the industry to a sustainable future The ending of more than 500 years of naval shipbuilding in Portsmouth will inevitably lead to laments about Britain's industrial decline. This was an industry that at its peak built great ships such as the Queen Mary and HMS Dreadnought, constructed in ...
BAE is closing Portsmouth shipyard – but it could have been different if successive governments had guided the industry to a sustainable future The ending of more than 500 years of naval shipbuilding in Portsmouth will inevitably lead to laments about Britain's industrial decline. This was an industry that at its peak built great ships such as the Queen Mary and HMS Dreadnought, constructed in ...