Getting shipshape for Ambush launch

There are now 80 Ambush crew members living in Furness flats and houses, “standing by” their £1bn submarine.

They are learning how the sub and its complex hi-tech equipment, works before taking the boat to sea next year.

Those here include her first captain, a proud Commander Peter Green, who is from a family of submariners.

Ambush will eventually have a full crew of 140 although only 98 will go to sea at any one time.

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