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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Barrow shipyard fire on BAE sub

Astute class submarineShipyard workers were evacuated as firefighters battled a fire on Barrow’s second Astute class nuclear submarine last night.

BAE began an investigation today into the fire on the £1bn submarine Ambush, which is not yet nuclear powered.

The alarm was raised by a BAE firewatcher at 10.50pm after he spotted smoke in acoustic tiles on the outside of the £1bn Ambush.

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