Reservoirs & lochs · Scottish Highlands
HMNB Clyde
HMNB Clyde in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
About
HMNB Clyde is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
His Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde (HMNB Clyde) is the Royal Navy's main shore establishment in Scotland. It is home to the United Kingdom's fleet of nuclear submarines, including attack submarines and ballistic missile submarines. The main part of the base, officially named HMS Neptune and commonly known as Faslane, lies on Faslane Bay in Gare Loch, an inlet of the Firth of Clyde. The base also includes the Royal Naval Armaments Depot at Coulport on Loch Long, which stores, maintains and issues Trident missiles.
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Background
History
Faslane Port was first constructed in the Second World War. During the 1960s, the British Government began negotiating the Polaris Sales Agreement with the United States regarding the purchase of a Polaris missile system to fire British-built nuclear weapons from five specially constructed submarines. In the end, only four were constructed: , , and . These four submarines were permanently based at Faslane. Faslane itself was chosen to host these vessels at the height of the Cold War because of its geographic position, which forms a bastion on the relatively secluded but deep and easily navigable Gare Loch and Firth of Clyde on the west coast of Scotland. This position provides for rapid and…
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- Coordinates
- 56.0660, -4.8170
- Address
- Gare Loch and Loch Long, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
- Established
- 1964
Sources
- wikidata: Q628776 (CC0)
- wikipedia: HMNB Clyde (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is HMNB Clyde?
- HMNB Clyde is in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom.
- When was HMNB Clyde built?
- Built or established in 1964.
- Who owns HMNB Clyde?
- HMNB Clyde is owned by Royal Navy.