Minister of State for Defence Procurement Meets Cammell Laird Team Aboard HMS Prince of Wales

The Minister of State for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin MP, took time to visit Cammell Laird’s stand aboard HMS Prince of Wales.

Britain’s newest aircraft carrier was hosting a UKNEST industry event to celebrate UK engineering excellence as part of the ship’s week-long visit to Liverpool. The day was aimed at highlighting the engineering achievement and national endeavours of those that contributed to the delivery of the Queen Elizabeth-class carrier programme.

HMS Prince of Wales sailed up the Mersey last Friday in a demonstration of the Naval Service’s close ties with the city of Liverpool. She is affiliated with both Liverpool and Bristol, while her sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth is affiliated with London and Edinburgh. Liverpool is the only affiliated city that can be accessed by a carrier.

Minster of State for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin MP, speaks to Cammell Laird Chief Operating Officer Tony Graham. The event aboard HMS Prince of Wales was a celebration of UK’s engineering excellence.

Cammell Laird also took the opportunity this week to officially present the Ship’s Company with a special replica ship’s bell. It is an exact copy of the one lost and since recovered from HMS Prince of Wales’ namesake – a WW2 battleship – which sank off the coast of present-day Malaysia in 1941. 

About Cammell Laird:

Cammell Laird is one of the most famous names in British industry with roots tracing back to the early 19^th Century. The business is located on the River Mersey, in the Liverpool City Region, on the West Coast of England. It is in the centre of a marine cluster, with direct access to many support services. It has a 120 acre site with four dry docks, a non-tidal wet basin, large modular construction hall and extensive covered workshops. Cammell Laird specialises in military ship refit, commercial ship repair, upgrade and conversion and heavy fabrication and engineering. It deals with a wide variety of projects ranging from specialist offshore conversions and fabrication, commercial ship-repair through to the refit and upgrade of highly complex naval auxiliaries. It has also recently re-entered the ship-building market. The business is further active in the energy sector. It has become a hub of the off shore wind industry and it is offering its facilities and highly trained workforce of engineers for work in the civil nuclear sector and the off shore oil and gas sector. w: www.clbh.co.uk