A steady flow of naval shipbuilding and submarine orders for Barrow and Birkenhead shipyards to provide the Royal Navy with the ships it needs and to sustain the key skills and knowledgebase in the industry Retention of UK sovereignty over naval shipbuilding and national strategic capability to design build and operate complex warships and nuclear powered submarines for the Royal Navy The News section also records achievements of north west England's naval shipyards and how the naval shipbuilding programmes are progressing The Keep our Future Afloat Campaign was formed in Barrow in April 2004 by UNITE and GMB, as a trade union and local community led group of interests in the North West of England