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Monday, April 04, 2011

Trident sub crippled in accident

Vanguard classOne of Britain’s flagship Trident submarines is limping back to its home port on the Clyde this weekend after suffering an embarrassing accident at sea.

The Sunday Herald can reveal that HMS Vengeance has had to cut short a training exercise in the North Atlantic because its propeller became blocked by debris during bad weather late on Thursday evening.

The vessel – which is powered by a nuclear reactor and can carry up to 48 Trident nuclear warheads as well as conventional Spearfish torpedoes – is returning to the Faslane naval base on Gareloch to have the problem checked.

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