Minister for Defence Procurement Alex Chalk attended the ceremony to officially begin construction on the future HMS Birmingham at BAE Systems’ Govan shipyard in Glasgow.
The steel cut, marking the official start of build on the fourth of eight Type 26 frigates, was carried out by Jamie Finnegan, fabricator – plater and Ciaran Baillie, apprentice burner. All of the Royal Navy vessels will be built by BAE Systems on the Clyde, sustaining around 1,700 jobs in Scotland and 4,000 jobs…
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