yarrow shipbuilders limited

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...

The MEKO 200ANZ was selected for the RAN Patrol Frigate Project in the late 80s with the Dutch M Class considered by many to be the preferred option losing out. The other option in the final three was what was termed the Mini Type 23, or even as the "cut and bob tied' Type 23. The Type 23 was...

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...

I had a search for something similar on the forum, but found nowt. The attached photo was taken in a grocer's shop in North Shields, just down the Tyne from Yarrow's warship yard. Thought someone on the forum could identify them. The upper one looks most interesting. Chris

I am posting this on a separate thread as the NMM seem to have expanded this very useful site. http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/68998.html They have now posted pictures of the Yarrow nuclear FRS (covered in the nuclear surface ship thread) but also a whole lot more. Whoever...

:) Very interesting article from Navy International April 1975 regarding a convertible warship design. Does anyone have access to further information, perhaps a larger and clearer drawing as per page 23 or 25? Enjoy and I look forward to any replies.

Brooke Marine Offshore Patrol Ships Source: Aviation et Marine International November 1979

Hi all, (First of all, my apologies if this project has been discussed before) I was browsing through my defence magazine archives and found an article about the following project in a Turkish defence magazine, "Savunma ve Havacilik" (Defence and Aerospace) from 1997. The project is titled as...

A thread to discuss Type 23 variants (Originally European / UK AAW projects that arose after the split in the Horizon project (I thought there already was a thread on this, but I couldn't find it), but changed to reflect actual content). Firstly, the "stretched" Type 23 proposed by Yarrow in...

Does anyone have any information on the British Type 24 and 25 frigate designs my interest was peaked by the Royal Navy type designation page in wikipedia Type 24 I did a little reseach on this, but found confusing information. " A cheap ship, entended for export with a towed sonar array...

Many years ago I read about SWATH being the ideal hull form for future naval ships because of their superior seakeeping ability to monohulls. There stability made them ideal for carriers according to an article I read in Proceedings of the American Naval Institute. We breifly saw concept art...

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...