HMS Argyll at Dartmouth Regatta with the Black Cats
HMS Argyll is acting as guard ship at the Dartmouth Regatta until 31st August. This is one of the most prestigious events in Devonport’s annual calendar. The Argyll will be open to the public from...
View ArticleJust published – Clynder author’s book on Devonport Submarine Base
Keith Hall, who works at Faslane (HM Naval Base Clyde) and lives nearby at Clynder, has just had his sixth book published by The History Press. The title says it all: ‘HMS Defiance – Devonport’s...
View ArticleMoD, 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...
View ArticleCampbeltown bids a 6 day last farewell to HMS Campbeltown
HMS Campbeltown is a Type 22 Frigate, built at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, launched on 7th October 1987 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 27th May 1989. She is affiliated with her two namesake...
View ArticleDid the major submarine fire on a docked UK submarine happen at Faslane?
Yesterday’s Sunday Herald carried an exclusive by Rob Edwards, the paper’s Environment Editor, with statistics on fires aboard nuclear submarines since 1987.Some of what Edwards reveals is of real...
View ArticleHMS Argyll on way back to UK after counter-narcotics duty in Pacific
Royal Navy warship, HMS Argyll, has just completed an intense period of counter-narcotics operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean before starting to head home to the UK.On 20th August she was going...
View ArticleRosyth 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...
View ArticleHMS Argyll takes selfie shot at Devonport
There are selfies and selfies. The Plymouth Herald is reporting that at 15.34 on Wednesday afternoon, 12th March, the type 23 frigate, HMS Argyll, while on a training exercise, accidentally let fly a...
View ArticleWarship 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...
View ArticleArgyll meets up with Portland off Puerto Rico
One was at the start of her deployment to the Caribbean, the other at the end of hers to the South Atlantic.The two Plymouth-based Type 23 Frigates [to be replaced by the planned Type 26 Global Combat...
View ArticleWhisker it: Movember madness onboard HMS Argyll
The Plymouth warship HMS Argyll’s crew have been raising more money for charity during their busy deployment.Devonport-based sailors on the Type 23 Frigate have been battling with each other to grow...
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