The GMB asked for donations to be sent to the Appledore Shipbuilders Welfare Club.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Devon | Financial help 'floods' into shipyard
The Appledore yard is earmarked to help build hull sections for two of the UK's next generation of aircraft carriers.
BBC: Third strike by shipyard workers
Receivers from the accountancy firm Tenon Recovery called in to wind up Appledore were shown around the site on Wednesday.
Appledore Shipbuilders was founded in 1855 and the firm had one of the biggest enclosed ship-building facilities in Britain in the 1960s.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Devon | Potential buyers in shipyard talks
Workers at Appledore Shipyard are staging the protest in a bid to get the same pay rate from Babcock Marine as employees at the firm's other sites.
But on that sunny January 30th four centuries ago, a fully laden 60 tonne ship in Appledore harbour, north Devon, was picked up and dumped in nearby marshland.
ECONOMIST: A tsunami may have struck Britain 400 years ago
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