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Thursday, October 25, 2007

VT delivers fourth Type 45 BOW SET

VT Shipbuilding has delivered the fourth bow section for the Royal Navy's new Class of Daring Class destroyers to BAE Systems Surface Fleet Solutions' Govan shipyard in Glasgow.

The 50m. section, weighing some 1100 tons, was loaded out from VT's advanced shipbuilding facilities in Portsmouth Naval Base and placed on a barge which was subsequently towed to Glasgow in a four-day voyage via the Irish Sea.

The bow will now be consolidated with the rest of HMS Dragon, which is under construction by BAE. The funnel and masts, which VT is also building, will follow to Glasgow later this year.

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