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Montevideo, June 26th 2025 - 08:28 UTC

Tag: HMS Venturer

  • Monday, June 2nd 2025 - 06:54 UTC

    Royal Navy’s first of five Type 31, --HMS Venturer--, in final phase of construction

    The ship is the first of five Type 31 frigates being built for the Royal Navy, part of a £10bn investment in the Fleet of tomorrow to replace the existing Type 23 flotilla.

    After more than three years’ construction in a cavernous assembly hall in Rosyth, Fife, the 28-metre-tall doors were opened and HMS Venturer began to emerge. The ship is the first of five Type 31 frigates being built for the Royal Navy, part of a £10bn investment in the Fleet of tomorrow to replace the existing Type 23 flotilla.

  • Thursday, October 31st 2024 - 19:40 UTC

    Work begins in Royal Navy’s new Type 31 frigate HMS Formidable

    Formidable is the third of five Type 31 frigates now under construction, alongside HMS Venturer and Active which are taking shape (Graphic RN)

    With a blinding arc of light as the laser cutter sliced through steel plate, work started this week on the Royal Navy’s new frigate HMS Formidable. Watched by political, military and business leaders – as well as the hundreds of skilled engineers and technicians – local MP Graeme Downie pressed the button to set the machine in motion at Babcock’s state-of-the-art facility in Rosyth.

  • Friday, September 24th 2021 - 07:55 UTC

    First steel cut for Royal Navy Type 31 frigates program

    In just two years’ time Venturer will be in the water. In seven she’ll be joined by sisters Active, Bulldog, Campbeltown and Formidable<br />

    The Royal Navy on Thursday entered the age of the Type 31 as work began on HMS Venturer, the first of five ships ‘at the fulcrum of the future fleet’. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace set the cutters at work on steel for the lead ship in the Inspiration class in a brand-new assembly hall in Rosyth.