David Burdett on Shipbuilding

Looking at the vast changes in the Marine Industry in the Cowes area and the changes with Trinity House, things have come and gone. With the loss of the shipbuilding industry, there was a loss of employment.

Here in East Cowes we had a very healthy, strong ship building industry, world renowned. That’s all gone, there’s not a sign of it left, except for one propeller we’ve got down on the sea front.

But we’ve done these things, we’ve shown that on the Island we’ve got the talent and expertise to build ships, so we could do it again. In fact, we are, we’re building high-speed Ferries for Red Funnel.