The dismantling process has already started on three defueled submarines at Rosyth – HMS Swiftsure, HMS Resolution and HMS Revenge – with about 90% of the overall metal free from radioactivity.
The nuclear vessels being stored include the first submarines used to carry the UK's nuclear deterrent: the HMS Revenge, HMS Renown, HMS Repulse and HMS Resolution. Attack submarine HMS Conqueror ...
All the UK's submarines will soon be based at Faslane. Later that year, HMS Resolution conducted the first operational Polaris patrol. By 1969 the UK had fully committed to Continuous At Sea ...