UK shipyard evacuated amid reports of a bomb on a nuclear submarine - operator
Police were alerted around 9am on Wednesday morning, after an anonymous tip-off warning that there was a bomb on one of the Astute class vessels at BAE Systems' shipyard in Barrow, according to The Mail.
“As a precaution, the Devonshire Dock Complex has been closed,” a spokeswoman for BAE Systems said. “Staff, contractors and local residents are being kept informed.”
The main submarine construction facility at the Barrow shipyard has been evacuated - with a police presence on site. Hundreds of workers in the main Devonshire Dock Hall had to leave this morning over what site owner BAE Systems will only describe as an "ongoing incident". pic.twitter.com/rafIfpFuYd
— BBC North West (@BBCNWT) April 10, 2019
Some 1,700 employees were evacuated from the scene as Cumbria Police moved in to investigate the incident. Ambulances are at the scene.
Devonshire Dock Hall is where the UK defense and security firm is constructing the final three attack submarines of Britain’s newest fleet.
Astute-class submarines are the latest generation of nuclear-powered attack submarines in service with the British Royal Navy. The £1.4 billion ($1.7bn) vessels are 318ft long and weigh up to 8,200 tons – armed with an arsenal of cruise missiles and torpedos.
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