Tag: Royal Navy Type 26 frigate

• Saturday, October 18th 2025 - 06:10 UTC

  HMS Westminster heads for retirement and disposal as she's towed to Portsmouth

  

  The former Royal Navy frigate HMS Westminster has been towed out of Devonport on her way to Portsmouth, where she will be prepared for disposal.  She joins HMS Argyll, HMS Montrose, and HMS Northumberland, as the Navy continues to retire its older Type 23 frigates, reports Forces News.

• Wednesday, June 4th 2025 - 07:38 UTC

  The three pillars of PM Starmer UK Strategic Defense Review

  

  The United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer hopes to “bring a unity of purpose to the whole of the United Kingdom” as he outlined his spending plans in the Strategic Defense Review.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2025 - 08:43 UTC

  Princess of Wales smashes bottle of whisky and formally names HMS Glasgow, first of eight Type 26 frigate

  

  The Royal Navy's most advanced anti-submarine warship has officially been named HMS Glasgow, honoring Scotland's second city. The Prince and Princess of Wales attended the naming ceremony at BAE Systems' shipyard in Glasgow, reports Forces.net.

• Monday, December 2nd 2024 - 09:07 UTC

  Falklands, construction of a new HMS Sheffield, a state of the art Type 26 Frigate

  

  Construction has begun on the Royal Navy's latest Type 26 frigate, HMS Sheffield, with the first steel being cut in a ceremony in Glasgow. The official beginning of construction was marked by an event attended by Defense Procurement Minister Maria Eagle.

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Steel has been cut for the Royal Navy’s second Type 26 frigate, HMS Cardiff.

  

  The ceremony held at BAE System’s shipyard in Govan this week, on the River Clyde, marks a milestone for the Global Combat Ship program. Minister for Defense Procurement, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, pressed the button to start the plasma-cutting machine to work on a plate of steel which will form part of the unit which holds stores.