1 Glasgow:
Once the biggest shipbuilding city in the UK, it built some of the world's biggest vessels including the QE2, Queen Mary and HMS Hood.
2 Belfast: The giant Harland & Wolff yard built the Titanic.
3 Sunderland: The shipyards on the River Wear were closed in 1988 - a casualty of the Thatcher years.
4 Portsmouth: The yards in the south coast city were closed by BAE last year.
5 Newcastle: The giant Cammell Laird yard once employed thousands of men on Tyneside.
6 Birkenhead: Cammell Laird started its operations on the Mersey and ships are still being built there.
7 Barrow-in-Furness: The former Vickers yard is now owned by BAE and specialises in building submarines.
8 Greenock: The Clyde town was devastated by the closure of the giant Scott Lithgow yard.
9 Dumbarton: Yet another Clyde town with a great shipbuilding history, once home to the Denny yard.
10 Dundee: The city was home to the famous Caledon yard and built Captain Scott's Discovery.
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