One of my continuing interests and a strength of this site is information about Royal Navy ships that never left the drawing board.
Recently.not so much has been published about these designs so I thought I would start this thread.
Many projects have there own threads and are well known to...
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SSomewhere online I've seen a document from he early-mid 1980s with Royal Navy planned surface ship construction through to the mid-1990s. It had projected order dates for 24 Type 23 frigates, eight AORs, and two more CASTLE class OPVs.
I seem to recall that it was an omnibus document from the...
although no pictures exist there is supposed to be a model of the proposed RFA replenishment ship with nuclear power in the massive Greenwich collection. I have never been able to get to see this model, but based on some small drawings of mercantile UK reactor designs in an old Airfix magazine...
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yarrow shipbuilders limited
yarrow-admiralty research department
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