Originally Posted by
Low Level Pilot
Maybe BAE Barrow, with possibly RR, could be encouraged/induced/persuaded by the govt to takeover forgemasters which would go someway to resurrecting the dream
of an old British company (Vickers) to build major warships using their own steel!
Except what they do is really specialist castings. For context, the entire UK shipbuilding industry used about 8000-10000 tonnes of steel pa. Which includes plate thickness between 6mm and 24mm (plus the submarine thicknesses) in various grades from AH27 to Q1N. Plus sections (T-bars, OBP) of varying sizes.
Total UK steel production is 7.5m tonnes pa. So shipbuilding is about 0.15% of annual production.