S teel has been cut on the third-in-class Type 31 frigate, the future HMS Formidable, at Babcock’s Rosyth shipyard, with a further two hulls planned to provide a five-strong fleet of general ...

Still to come in the five-ship class are HMS Bulldog and finally Campbeltown. Categories: Politics , International . Tags: Frigate Type 31 , HMS Active , HMS Formidable , HMS Venturer , Royal Navy .

“We cut steel on the third ship in the programme, HMS Formidable, in October 2024, and in June 2025 the first ship, HMS ...

After more than three years’ construction in a cavernous assembly hall in Rosyth, Fife, the 28-metre-tall doors were opened and HMS Venturer began to emerge. The ship is the first of five Type ...

Defence company Babcock has begun steel cutting on the third Type 31 Inspiration-class frigate, HMS Formidable, at the company’s Scottish facility in Rosyth. The beginning of the shipbuilding process ...

Royal Navy: Steel cut for new Type 31 warship HMS Formidable as MoD hails milestone to bolster fleet. By Freddie Webb. Defence Reporter. Comment. Published 9th Oct 2024, 15:18 BST.

Ministers are describing the first production stages of a new high-tech Navy frigate as a ‘major milestone’ that will sustain more than UK 2,500 jobs. Steel has been cut on the HMS Formidable ...

The war in Europe was almost over. I was onboard HMS Formidable in the Pacific Ocean. I was 25 years old. I had been in the Navy since 1941. I was in the ADR (Aircraft Direction Room).

The standard of HMS Formidable, also known as ship that launched itself, finds a new home at Chatham Grammar School for Boys.