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Vickers-Armstrong

High Walker, United Kingdom

Formed in 1897 by the merger of Armstrong Mitchell with Joseph Whitworth. Following the merger with Vickers in 1927, became the Walker Naval Yard of Vickers-Armstrong. Passed to Swan Hunter Shipbuilders in 1968 and nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders in 1977. Shipbuilding ceased in 1983.