FIRST U.K. ATOMIC SUBMARINE
Keel Laid For New Dreadnought
(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, June 12.
The Royal Navy entered the age of nuclear propulsion today when the Duke of Edinburgh turned on a gamma ray to lay the keel of Britain’s first atompowered submarine. Dreadnought, at Barrow, Lancashire. Before an audience of Admiralty chiefs and thousands of dockers and townsfolk the Duke pressed a button to operate the ray which started a winch used to draw sections of the submarine on to the slipway. It will be some four years before the pear-shaped Dreadnought will be launched.
Dreadnought is being fashioned on American lines by Vickers Armstrong shipbuilders. It will be powered by an American propulsion unit costing in the region of £lO million according to authoritative estimates
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28922, 16 June 1959, Page 13
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