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HMS Vigilant alongside Faslane Naval Base. HMS Astute arriving at Faslane for the first time. HMNB Clyde lies on the eastern shore of Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, to the north of the Firth of Clyde and 25 mi (40 km) west of Glasgow. The submarine base encompasses a number of separate sites, the primary two being: Faslane, 25 miles from Glasgow;
HMS Vigilant alongside Faslane Naval Base. MOD 45147682. The Royal Navy has a significant presence on the Firth of Clyde. HMNB Clyde is known as Faslane within the navy and is located on Loch Long. HMNB Clyde's role is with the servicing and maintenance of the UK submarine defence fleet. The base has other locations around the Firth. [110]
Faslane Bay. Faslane (Gaelic: Am Fas Leathann) on Gare Loch is the name of a bay near the village of Garelochhead, and is now the main part of HM Naval Base Clyde in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, as well as being a Defence Logistics Organisation port, operated in dual site organisation with Great Harbour, Greenock, by Serco Denholm.
Garelochhead (Scots: Garelochheid, [2] [3] Scottish Gaelic: Ceann a' Gheàrr-loch, "Headland of the Short Lake") [4] is a small town on the Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is the nearest town to the HMNB Clyde naval base. [5] Garelochhead lies 7 miles (11 kilometres) northwest of Helensburgh.
HMS Boscawen, Naval Police Patrol HQ, Portland, Dorset; HMS Britannia III, Coastal Forces Motor Torpedo Boat & Motor Gun Boats, Dartmouth; HMS Brontosaurus (formerly HMS Ararat), Combined Operations landing craft crew training, Castle Toward, Toward, Argyll; HMS Cabbala, Training establishment for WRNS W/T operators, at Lowton [20] near ...
On Sept. 8, 2005, the Department of Defense's Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) gave President George W. Bush a list of 20 major military installations that it had determined were no ...
Naval Base Coronado. Naval Amphibious Base Coronado; Naval Air Station North Island; Naval Outlying Field Imperial Beach; Naval Auxiliary Landing Field San Clemente Island; Naval Base Point Loma; Naval Medical Center San Diego; Naval Air Facility El Centro; Naval Air Station Lemoore; Naval Support Activity Monterey [1] Naval Postgraduate School ...
Faslane naval base is the headquarters of the Royal Navy in Scotland The Clyde naval base (Faslane) houses the nuclear-armed Vanguard 15 class submarines that form the "At-Sea Nuclear Deterrent". The base also houses the Astute Class of attack submarines and a frigate acting as a Towed Array Patrol ship operates that protect Trident-equipped ...