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Vickers Shipbuilding & Engineering Limited (VSEL)
Company typeLimited company
IndustryShipbuilding
Marine Engineering
Founded1871
Defunct2007
FateAcquired
SuccessorBAE Systems Submarine Solutions
BAE Systems Land & Armaments
Headquarters
Barrow-in-Furness
,
England
OwnerBritish Shipbuilders (1977–1986)
GEC (1995–1999)
BAE Systems (1999–present)

Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, Ltd (VSEL) was a shipbuilding company based at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria in northwest England that built warships, civilian ships, submarines and armaments. The company was historically the Naval Construction Works of Vickers Armstrongs and has a heritage of building large naval warships and armaments. Through a complicated history the company's shipbuilding division is now BAE Systems Submarine Solutions and the armaments division is now part of BAE Systems Land & Armaments.

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