We are very pleased to announce that Angela Wilkes has now arrived back home safely and is with her family, we are very relieved that Angela is ok. A big Thanks to everyone for their concern and we now wish Angela and her family all the very best for some much needed time together. It's a really great feeling to know that you are back with us Angela.

Love and best wishes to you and your family.

We are all smiling now :)

This is a picture of HMS Invincible coming back into Barrow Docks after her Sea Trials in 1979. There were lots of people that turned out to watch her that day. It has more sentimental value for the town of Barrow-in-Furness because they built her. This section is dedicated to all those who went on Sea Trials with HMS Invincible and we hope that it brings lots of memories back for you. HMS Invincible may have served her Country for twenty-five years, but it was Barrow where her journey really began. There are many people who can see "Vinci" on the tour around Portsmouth Harbour everyday but even at Portsmouth they don't have the memories of Invincible going down the slipway into the channel as the people of Barrow stood proud knowing that this was their handywork, their great craftsmanship that they had shown over the years building ships and submarines. It is thanks to the Shipyard in the North West that Invincible was born.

These times will never be forgotton, for all those who worked on Invincible this is for you.

A Big Thankyou

3rd May 1977, yes the date that HMS Invincible was launched, her birthday yesterday and thirty-three years to the day today since she rolled down the slipway in Barrow-in-Furness. We would love for you to join us on facebook and Vinci's many friends on there. Their support is magnificent and we really do appreciate your comments on the website, please keep them coming. Proud day for Barrovians because without them there would be no Invincible. Today Vinci lays dead in the water in Portsmouth and we really would like to keep this fine ship in this Country. We do not have an Aircraft Carrier Museum so this would be a first. Please support the Campaign to try and keep Vinci, time is running out, because as of September this year her fate will be decided.

LET'S HOLD ONTO TO SOMETHING THAT THIS COUNTRY CAN BE PROUD OF!

She served her Country with honours for twenty-five years and carries an enormous amount of history including the Falklands War.

Many Thanks For YOUR Support

Let us not forget that Barrow-in-Furness is a great shipbuilding town, and the towns heritage is of great importance. HMS Illustrious built at Tyneside has been back there countless times to pay a visit, HMS Invincible has never been back to Barrow-in-Furness. Should Barrow be forgotten, should we throw away the memories of those great shipbuilding days, where has it all gone? this is what Barrow is famous for, and we owe it to the people of Barrow-in-Furness to show the world just how wonderful it was to build ships and submarines back in the good old days. We have had many ships come and visit our town, but never had one of our own come back for a visit. What do we have now? compared to those days, where are all the big ships and why is our heritage slipping away from us. It takes alot of time and hard work to build a ship and there have been so many wonderful ships built and launched here in Barrow. Our workforce is a credit to us. Vickers Shipbuilding Ltd, those were the days, long gone but still in our hearts, and HMS Invincible gives us a chance to remind people of those fantastic times we had building ships. History is something that we cannot change, and as a Barrovian, I am very proud of my town and its history. In 2005, like I have said, HMS Invincible sailed up the East Coast of England from Portsmouth visiting different ports along the way, and when I went to visit her that year in North Shields, it was great to see that the people there welcomed her and did her proud, but! I thought she is not home, and the people of Barrow-in-Furness should get to celebrate 25 years of Invincible, afterall it is their hard work their great craftsmanship that went into building this fine vessel. The Government gave Barrow shipping orders, they know that we are more than capable of building such vessels and have an excellent reputation in the Shipbuilding Industry, and so, with this in mind it is only fair that we get to have HMS Invincible come back to Barrow so that the ship can honour the town that built her and is home to her and the town can honour their ship. HMS Invincible was Flagship for the Royal Navy and I have learned such alot from the people of Barrow in reading their stories about which part they built and how they remember the launch and what it meant to their families and how proud they were. The people that built  HMS Invincible know more about this ship than I do, and that is why this website is dedicated to them. Should Barrow be left out completely? should we say goodbye to our heritage? NO!! absolutely not, why should we be left out.

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