Historical place archive

Barrow-in-Furness in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Barrow-in-Furness in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

3 records3 event labels3 people1967–1993

Historical events in Barrow-in-Furness

1967

15 September 1967
HMS Resolution
James Harold Wilson · Nuclear

HMS Resolution is commissioned as Britain's first Polaris ballistic missile submarine

1986

1986
Vanguard Class
Margaret Hilda Thatcher · Nuclear

The Government proceeds with construction planning for Vanguard class ballistic missile submarines

1993

14 August 1993
HMS Vanguard
Benjamin Bathurst Bathurst · Nuclear

HMS Vanguard is commissioned as the first British Trident ballistic missile submarine

Provenance

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