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9 results found for '"Rosyth"' in Keywords.
Falklands war ends - HMS Plymouth returns (1982)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a British seaman (not identified) on their role and Argentine attacks, following the return from the Falkland Islands of HMS Plymouth, to Rosyth in Scotland, after the end of the war between...
HMS Revenge sabotage (1982)
- Genre
- Interview
Douglas Cameron interviews a former British Navy minister (not identified - poss. Keith Speed) about a sabotage attack on the HMS Revenge nuclear submarine at the Rosyth naval base in Scotland and a planned...
General election - David Owen on defence policy (1987)
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- Interview
SDP leader David Owen is interviewed about defence policy; Polaris nuclear submarine; effect of Labour Party’s non-nuclear policy on Rosyth; during campaign for 1987 General Election. Reporter not...
Minehunters leave Scotland for the Mediterranean (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Jim Duff reports on three minehunters leaving the Rosyth naval base in Scotland for the Mediterranean, to join the Gulf Task Force. Yvonne Mitchell, the wife of a rating, talks about her husband going to...
Rosyth to escape budget cuts (1991)
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- Interview
Interview with Defence Secretary Tom King on Rosyth Naval Base and the decision to keep it open during defence cuts. Political correspondent Peter Russell interviews.
Rosyth to escape budget cuts (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with transport union official Jack Dromey on the defence cuts, and the decision to keep Rosyth Naval Base open but with some jobs to go. Political correspondent Paul Rowley interviews.
Trident Submarines to Devonport (1993)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Report on the Government decision to give the 5 billion-pound contract to refit Trident Submarines to Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth as opposed to longstanding partner Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland....
Fight to keep Rosyth naval base open (1994)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified Scottish male MP (poss. Gordon Brown, Labour MP for Dunfermline East?), on the future of the Rosyth naval base. Male interviewer not identified.
Rosyth reaction to defence cuts (1994)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Matt Bingham reports from the Royal Naval Base in Rosyth following the Government’s announcement of a major new round of defence cuts. Seven hundred civilian jobs are to be axed at the base. Includes...