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Giant aircraft carriers offer 400 Barrow jobs.
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Lakeland Echo (Morecambe, England)
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July 8, 2008
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BARROW, along with two other major shipbuilding centres, are cheering their prospects at the announcement of two new UK contracts for aircraft carriers.
The Ministry of Defence has signed the contracts worth [pounds sterling]3.2bn - the country's biggest ever aircraft carriers.
The 280-metre-long HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales will be capable of carrying up to 40 aircraft.
The contracts will create or secure 3,000 jobs at Govan, in Glasgow, 1,600 at Rosyth, in Fife, 1,200 in Portsmouth and 400 in Barrow- in-Furness.
The defence secretary said the vessels were needed to launch military strikes and humanitarian operations.
Defence Secretary Des ...