Housing Trident
At present, HMS Vengeance is receiving her long overhaul in HMNB Devonport. It was chosen in the 1990s to be the main refit base, despite Rosyth having performed that service for Polaris submarines.
Looking at the present navy lists and comparing them with 50 years ago, there is now a much smaller number of active ships. Even allowing for the closing of other bases in the intervening years, there is still plenty of capacity at HMNB Portsmouth and HMNB Devonport. With a reshuffle of home ports, surely there would be capacity for the normal maximum number of two boats (one is always at sea and usually one in refit) at Devonport?
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Hide AdWith the Trafalgar class already based there, Devonport has nuclear submarine propulsion experience. Or is it that the population of the Clyde is more expendable in a first strike than the population of Plymouth?
Bruce D Skivington
Paic a Ghliob
Strath, Gairloch, Wester Ross