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Monday, July 09, 2012

Nuclear submarines hit by more than 200 fires in the past 25 years

Trafalgar-class submarineThe incidents included 74 on ballistic missile submarines.

Three of the fires happened while the vessels were in naval bases, one of them on a ballistic missile submarine.

Peter Luff, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology, gave the figures in response to a parliamentary question by SNP defence spokesman Angus Robertson.

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