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Sunday, December 16, 2012

All at sea: Clyde-based Trident sub stranded in US despite £300m overhaul

Vanguard-class |A Trident submarine has been forced to limp back to port in the US after its rudder broke, upsetting Britain's nuclear weapons patrols and undermining the effectiveness of a £300 million overhaul.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that HMS Vigilant, a nuclear-powered submarine capable of carrying nuclear warheads, was disabled while on the way home to the Faslane naval base on the Clyde after test-firing a Trident missile in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida on October 23.

The submarine is understood to have turned around and returned to the US naval base at Kings Bay in Georgia, near Florida, where the damage is now being investigated and repaired. The base is home to the US fleet of Trident submarines.

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