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Topic Originator: babs woodhouse
Date: Thu 12 Sep 08:02
Type 31 to go to Rosyth
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Topic Originator: davepars
Date: Thu 12 Sep 08:40
Welcome news. It'll be a tough year until it starts, but safeguards a large workforce until 2028, with the possibility of exports (that's what the e at the end stands for).
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Topic Originator: Captain Desmond Fancey
Date: Thu 12 Sep 08:49
Good news and further proof of the benefits of Scotland staying part of the UK.
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Thu 12 Sep 11:05
This will be punted to the political forum if you want to debate about such things
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Thu 12 Sep 11:06
Thank goodness for the continuing threat of Scottish independence otherwise this work would have quite possibly went elsewhere.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: davepars
Date: Thu 12 Sep 12:31
Thank goodness the political patter has resulted in a genuine good news story for the yard as well as Fife, well worthy of being in off topic, being moved to the political forum.
The Woodmill thread will be moved in here shortly I guess.
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Topic Originator: petrie_pants
Date: Thu 12 Sep 12:47
Quote:
davepars, Thu 12 Sep 12:31
Thank goodness the political patter has resulted in a genuine good news story for the yard as well as Fife, well worthy of being in off topic, being moved to the political forum.
The Woodmill thread will be moved in here shortly I guess.
This
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Topic Originator: hurricane_jimmy
Date: Thu 12 Sep 13:39
Quite obviously a ploy to try and imply a non-existent advantage to the UK, but still a welcome boost for the local economy.
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Topic Originator: Mario
Date: Thu 12 Sep 13:56
I prefer your long posts HJ as I never read them except to help insomnia.
Having read this one three times, what exactly are you blethering about?
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Topic Originator: Parsbilly
Date: Thu 12 Sep 14:33
the modern joy of everything becoming a political bunfight. Divide and conquer works.
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Topic Originator: pacifist
Date: Thu 12 Sep 20:46
Good news but weren't 13 promised before the Indy referendum?
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Topic Originator: dave67
Date: Fri 13 Sep 08:22
Preferred Bidder
Not actually won contract yet
Let`s try making it till Christmas
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Topic Originator: Superally
Date: Fri 13 Sep 14:56
Delighted that Rosyth and Scottish shipbuilding will benefit. However it will be interesting if the Government will honour its promises like the last time they promised an order. It might be more convincing if they painted it on a red bus. However an order is an order and helps to develop Rosyth's growing reputation which is good.
2009/10, 2010/11, 2013/14, 2015/16 dafc.net Prediction League Champion
It's a well known medical fact that some men were born two drams below par.
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Topic Originator: parbucks
Date: Fri 13 Sep 16:06
Needs to be signed off by the MOD at the end of the year.
Better hope that a Corbyn led government doesn’t get in as he and his sidekick are not great fans of having a defence capability. Would be one of their first targeted spending cuts to finance their Marxist agenda.
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Fri 13 Sep 16:12
What a load of tosh.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: parbucks
Date: Fri 13 Sep 20:28
That’s your opinion.
Hopefully it’s never put to the test.
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Topic Originator: desparado
Date: Fri 13 Sep 21:55
Less than 1/10 of what was promised in 2014.
Would not surprise me in the slightest if this is diluted ........not awarded yet.
I mean why would I not trust a word that comes out of this governments mouth?
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Topic Originator: Mario
Date: Fri 13 Sep 22:25
Utter pihs. 130 frigates was it?
BAE on the Clyde have orders for 8 Frigates plus 5 patrol boats, twenty years work on the books.
Another five frigates will be assembled down the road
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Fri 13 Sep 23:15
The type 31 is a smaller and cheaper (we shall see lol) frigate than the Type 26 warships currently being built at the Upper Clyde shipyards.
The winning consortium also includes Thales and BMT, as well as Ferguson Marine, based in Port Glasgow, and Harland and Wolff in Belfast - both of which are currently in administration.
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Topic Originator: desparado
Date: Sat 14 Sep 11:25
https://theferret.scot/sturgeon-indyref-shipbuilding-promises-broken/
The ferret....non political.....agrees with NS....mostly. Promises were broken.
Now we can pontificate all day long about what was promised and what has been will be delivered but at the end of the day any Government can make “ guarantees” to suit their political agenda at the time but as we all know their guarantees are not worth a jot.
Along comes a new government , a spending review and ....boom.....gone or diluted substantially.
The frigates promised and the frigate factory were just a series of promises made by the government of the day that they knew they could not keep or probably did not care if they could keep. Job done though, lots of people believed them.
What has been or will be delivered to yards in Scotland is substantially less than was promised......fact.
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Topic Originator: Mario
Date: Sat 14 Sep 11:37
Scottish yards are and will be continue involved in building/assembling all the RN new generation of frigates and destroyers. Fact.
The grinding sound is the Scot Govt welcome of this new order through gritted teeth. Suits their agenda not a jot.
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Topic Originator: davepars
Date: Mon 16 Sep 16:24
For anyone interested, please watch this video - Hope the link works.
Winning bid from Rosyth is a one site solution. The capability to deliver is within the site, or will be soon.
The deal is done bar a little tidying up....the man here says so himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7UB0YuTNQA
Post Edited (Mon 16 Sep 16:25)
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Topic Originator: Mario
Date: Sat 16 Nov 08:13
Good news for Rosyth workforce..contract awarded.
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Sat 16 Nov 09:01
Nae tradesmen left, they're all taking their money and running!😎🛫🛏🏌️♂️🚴♀️🍻💲💲💲
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Topic Originator: Mario
Date: Sat 16 Nov 11:39
Is that the currency in Troon?
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Sat 16 Nov 13:48
Trumps course!🏌️♂️🏌️♂️🏌️♂️
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Sat 16 Nov 16:17
Dockyards like a ghost town now.
Loads of folk taking their money.
Others going to other yards across the UK until this work starts.
Bad planning by Babcock who should have done more to secure interim work leading up to the start of the Frigates project in my opinion... But it can't be an easy task to do that. They will have lost a lot of skills by then because of this lull in work.
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Topic Originator: Mario
Date: Sun 17 Nov 12:42
Old Dollytown was dominated by the Yard, just about every man of the hoose worked there. In fact in its heyday it was the largest single site employer in Scotland.
When the down tools hooter went the busses up Castle road were end to end, bikes galore, tackety boots clattering up the hill from the locals who lived within tramping distance. There was also a train link to Edinburgh?
Is it all transient contract work now?
All my immediate neighbours were Geordies or from the NE, so many of them that the Wee Shop in Heath road had a special delivery of the Sunday papers for the expat Newcastle and Sunderland etc. diehards to enjoy/moanover with their pint in the Big or Wee Club.
I was a Talbot Roader btw, folks must have moved there when it was newly built or not long after. They were in Sighthill for a bit before that after being moved from Devonport late 1941 I think.
Any other old Dollyboys/girls out there?
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Sun 17 Nov 23:54
Aye Cantlie Crescent 1952 to 1967, then up to new build Primrose Ave till 1973 when I married and moved away.
Great days in Dollytown!
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Topic Originator: Mario
Date: Mon 18 Nov 07:52
Indeed. Grand if you were into gardening, ruddy enormous some them.
Also indoor toilet and a bathroom, unlike my relatives houses in South Shields -toilet out in the yard, tin bath in the back parlour, and not a blade of grass in sight.
They were demolished about 55 years ago, but I’ve rented a couple of holiday houses in Chester that survive from that era. The old outside loos are store rooms now, the back parlours are the dining area, the old tin baths are planted up as there is still nae grass in the yard..
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Mon 18 Nov 10:38
Summer times were amazing, all streets festooned with yellow laburnum trees, made Rosyth the Garden City!
And 15 a side that started in the morning right through till dusk on the field at the back of shop/hairdressers (Lowries???)
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Topic Originator: Mario
Date: Mon 18 Nov 13:11
Sometimes climbed the fence to the fleet grounds (might get an hour in before getting chased) also the abandoned Rosyth Recs Juniors pitch where the CS bowling green is now.
And the “field” of course. It was known as just that.
My brother had the end house top of Bruce road, huge garden, perfect for three a side with me and him, his three boys and the wee lad next door.
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Topic Originator: THE_TECHNICIAN
Date: Mon 18 Nov 14:26
Rosyth born (home birth, Heath Rd) and bred.
Still mind blooding myself, literally, in the old bomb shelter at the corner with Fraser Rd.
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