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HMS Argyll to Babcock yard in Rosyth for 12 month refit

The Type 23 Frigate, HMS Argyll, is now at Babcock’s at Rosyth in Fife for a year-long refit that will employ 120 staff at the Yard.She will have a new weapon control system, new electronic guns, an...

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MoD, Argyll, redundant submarines and nuclear waste disposal

Much of the Scottish Media has spent the last two days headlining the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) intention to dump nuclear waste from redundant nuclear submarines in up to 5 locations in Scotland.Our...

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Responses to first news of MoD plans for Argyll submarine nuclear waste sites

The MoD made no contact with the responsible local authority but wrote to advise Argyll & Bute MP, Alan Reid, that ‘one or more’ unspecified sites ‘in your locality’ are under consideration to host...

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Section of Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier leaves Clyde for Rosyth

(Position updates 20th August below) The first and mid section of the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, built at BAE Systems at Govan on the Clyde, passed below the Erskine Bridge this afternoon (16th...

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QE aircraft carrier block on the last stage into Rosyth

(Updated 17.45 20th August) At the foot of our story on the leaving of the Clyde of the mid section block of the new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, For Argyll has been carrying regular position...

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HMS St Albans in Loch Fyne

The Type 3 Frigate, HMS St Albans [F83], dropped in to Loch Fyne today, 14th October, for a spot of training. She was making repeated trips at modest speed up and down the deep channel off the east...

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Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier section to load onto AMT Trader today

The largest section of the new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, built at BAE Systems in Govan on the Clyde, is being loaded today- 15th October 2012 – onto the world’s second largest barge, the AMT...

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Last carrier block confirmed to leave Govan on Monday

BAE Systems at Govan on the Clyde have confirmed that the last block of the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier will leave the dock at 10.30am on Monday 29th October.She is planned to take the route...

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Carrier block will not move out of Govan tomorrow

The weather window is still not right for the tow of the barge carrying the last section of the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier from the Clkyde round the north coast and into Rosyth.BAE has told us...

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Aircraft carrier section unlikely to move on Thursday

It is unlikely that the last section of the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier will leave Govan tomorrow – Thursday 1st November.If a weather window were to open, any departure for Rosyth would be...

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Weather may force the BAE carrier block to take the southerly route

BAE Systems at Govan are looking at a possible departure for the last block of the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier on Sunday 4th November. We will update before then on the time which is not yet...

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BAE carrier section to leave Govan on Sunday

This remains weather dependent but BAE intend to move the last section of the new aircraft carrier out of Govan at midday on Sunday.The barge will take the southern route – again because of weather –...

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Bring it on out: Queen Elizabeth carrier section tugged out of the Clyde today

At this moment – 19:45 4th November – BAE’s last block for the new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier is being towed between the south east of Bute and the Cumbraes by a single tug – the offshore supply...

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Aircraft carrier block now coming up to Dungeness

The offshore tug, Carlo Magno, with fellow offshore goer, BB Troll, in attendance, is just now [09.00 8th November] guiding the barge, AMT Trader carrying the carrier section. into the narrows at the...

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Aircraft carrier block on run in to Rosyth

The offshore tug, Carlo Magno, has had, since last Sunday, 4th November, charge of the last and stern block of the new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier from the Clyde, south through the English Channel...

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Shipping union adds to Orkney woes on disabled Serco Northlink ferry

The MV Hamnavoe has limped to Rosyth on one engine for repair to her starboard engine’s crankshaft.Northern Isles Ferry Services operator, the controversial Serco Northlink, expects her to be back in...

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Rosyth and Devonport to become radioactive waste storage areas?

Yesterday’s Independent on Sunday carried a report on the intentions of the Ministry of Defence to go ahead and remove low level radioactive waste [LLW] from redundant nuclear submarines parked up at...

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Warship IFR journal’s analysis of post -independence defence

The April edition of Warship IFR [International Fleet Review] carries an article – The perils of divorce and the custody battle - which is an informed insider’s view of naval defence forces following...

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Bowmore has the bottle to christen the Queen

Today, 4th July, the Queen will name the first of the two new Elizabeth class aircraft carriers after herself, at No 1 dock in the Rosyth shipyard in Fife.It has been made known earlier that she will...

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Transfer to Faslane of two Trafalgar class submarines no unalloyed gain

The Ministry of Defence announced yesterday, 24th November, that of the four Trafalgar class nuclear powered but conventionally armed hunter-killer submarines remaining in commission, two will stay in...

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