In a special ceremony at BAE Systems’ shipyard in Glasgow, His Royal Highness Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, set a plasma cutting machine to work on the first plate of steel for the third Type 26 frigate, HMS Belfast. The event marks an important step in the programme to deliver the UK’s latest anti-submarine warfare capability to the Royal Navy, with all three of the first batch of ‘City Class’ frigates now under construction. The UK-sourced steel plate will form part of a unit that will contain the machinery/equipment space for the frigate’s gearbox and stabilisers.

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