![]() ![]() Strategic plan ‘should be paused’ after ‘concerning’ and ‘flippant’ comments New bid for ‘exclusive visitor accommodation’ at Rhu mansionĬatamaran designs considered for new Dunoon and Kilcreggan ferries ‘Kilcreggan Harbour’ latest: No representative for Kilcreggan, milestones missed The wasted land: MoD should bring empty property back into use, says MSP Kilcreggan Harbour: Preferred option to be decided by Christmas ‘External assistance’ used for Argyll and Bute school clusters £9.3m plans for Kilcreggan Harbour revealed at last Kilcreggan Harbour plans ‘should incorporate pier’ Public rejected new Dunoon ferry designs – but survey results were kept secretįerry group appointment ‘a slap in the face for Rosneath Peninsula’Ĭost increase for new Kilcreggan and Dunoon ferries ‘appalling’ – MSPĮxclusive: Cost of new Dunoon and Kilcreggan ferries almost doublesĪlternative designs for Kilcreggan Harbour revealed after ten-month fightĪrgyll and Bute school collectives: PR consultants paid £65,000 so far New Dunoon and Kilcreggan ferries – time to ‘chuck out the anchor’? Housing site to become wildflower meadow, as MoD neglect of buildings continues ‘People not politics’ councillor campaigning for SNP Eleven years after its keel was laid in the Devonshire Hall in Barrow-in-Furness Shipyard, the boat was now clearly ready to fulfil its motto Marte et Ingenio, 'By Arms and Artfulness'.PR post advertised in five-year plan for change in Argyll and Bute The Glovers felt enormously privileged to have attended the Commissioning and to have visited such an impressive and technologically advanced asset to the nation's defence. Although there was a bunk for every sailor, every inch was utilised and the only element of comfort was the captain's chair in the control room. Lt Cdr Oliver Morrow, our affiliation liaison officer, was the guide, taking the City-suited Liverymen to all levels of HMS Artful, including the lowest deck where the Tomahawk land attack missiles and Spearfish torpedoes would be stored. Finally HMS Artful was formally brought into the service of the Royal Navy by her sponsor Lady Amanda Zambellas, wife of the First Sea Lord Admiral Sir George Zambellas.Īfter a reception in the Warrant Officers' Mess, during which Lady Zambellas and the youngest sailor cut a cake with a sword, the Glovers and Glass Sellers were escorted back onto a coach to return them to the jetty to tour the submarine. All present sang the Naval Hymn Eternal Father, strong to save. The captain, Commander Stuart Armstrong, then spoke proudly of the boat's capabilities, her successful sea trials and her "beating heart in the form the Ship's Company - outstanding to a man". Among many guests and family members, there were four representatives from the W C of Glass Sellers, which shares the affiliation.Īfter a march past by the crew, over a hundred strong, to rousing music played by the Band of the Royal Marines, Scotland, there was a short service conducted by the Chaplain of the Fleet. On Friday 18 March the Master, accompanied by the Renter and First Under Wardens and by Richard Morris, Military Affiliates Officer, attended the Commissioning Ceremony on the Valiant Jetty at HM Naval Base Clyde. Artful is the first submarine to be fitted with the Common Combat System, regarded as the digital 'brain' of the boat. The Glovers' Company was fortunate a few years ago to have been chosen by the Royal Navy to be affiliated to a outstanding example of British naval engineering, HMS Artful, the third in the Astute class of seven nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarines. ![]()
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