The Fife yard prepared Royal Navy ships during the conflict in 1982 and turned fishing vessels into minesweepers.
Rosyth Dockyard workers have been recognised for their role in the Falklands War, 40 years after the conflict began.
He said: "Rosyth dockyard played a key role in preparing Royal Navy ships for the conflict and saw frenzied activities as the stores, equipment and service personnel were assembled for the journey to the South Atlantic." On completion, they were crewed entirely by Royal Navy personnel and operated as the 11th Mine Counter Measures Squadron.
More than 50 current and former Babcock employees, Royal Navy personnel, armed forces veterans and representatives from the local community attended the ceremony. "To refit, and in some cases completely outfit from scratch, a number of merchant ships, in just a few days, for a purpose they hadn't been designed for, to then sail some 8,000 miles and operate as part of a quickly-created taskforce within a war zone, was an incredible task.
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