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Work has started on construction of a premier sports centre for the Royal Navy, the long-delayed Fleet recreation ground which will become the new H.M.S. Temeraire at Portsmouth.
Because ublic funds may not meet what Navy 5 highly desirab e refreshment-spectator facilityto “top of
the Grants Committee of the Sailors‘ Fund has decided to step in and offer up to £35,000. The s rts complex at St George's ground. near H.. l.S. Vernon where a ceremony at the end of June marked the start of construction work will be a for sport in the Navy and will be available 0 r use by establishments and ships. the Committee were told on June 22.
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production line has also been authorised for Yarrow (Shipbuilders). Glas ow.
class will have latest British mincswecping and mine hunting equipment. and two French PAP mine destructor outfits. Design and construction follows a research. and testing programme which as included the building of the e
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H.M.S. Brecon, launched by the Duchess of Kent at Southampton on June 21 and first of the Hunt class. is believed to be the largest plastics vessel afloat anywhere in the world. And the Royal Navy will be the first service to put a clas of glass-reinforced plastics MCM vessels into operational use. Launch of the 725-tonne full load) Brecon took place at the Woolston shipyard of Vospcr ornycroft (UK) Ltd.. which is also building the second 0! the class. H.M.S. Ledbury. Meanwhile. a
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First of her class, H.M.S. Brecon is pictured just after her Royal launch at Southampton.
development plastics minehunter gas.M.S.reinforced Wilton existing Ton class to
the quest has been for Throughout. material
which has the strength. stiffness and durability needed for the hull of a warship. while exercising little or no magnetic influence so as not to set off mines sensitive to the presence of magnetic materials. Complement of the Brecon. which will have a single Mark 9 -1-0-mm gun and be powered by diesel engines, will be about 45. She was built in a facilityoriginally erected for the Wilton and later extended. The hull mould was constructed of aluminium alloy in Devonport dockyard. shipped in sections to Woolston. and reassembled. Work on the Ledbury is now being carried out in the mould. a