The second of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s new Tide-class support ships, RFA Tiderace, has arrived in Cornwall to begin a programme of customisation. Like her sister ship RFA Tidespring, which arrived in April this year, the 39,000-tonne RFA Tiderace can carry up to 19,000 cubic metres of fuel and 1,400 cubic ...
Wates Construction Ltd has secured a contract from the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to deliver a new Squadron Headquarters to support the new aircraft, scheduled to come in to service at the Norfolk Station in mid-2018. The contract will see the creation of new facilities to support the new F-35B Lightning II ...
Two huge state-of-the-art gangways built to meet the unique demands of the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers have arrived at Portsmouth Naval Base. Designed and developed by Dutch specialists Verhoef, on behalf of BAE Systems, the bespoke gangways are part of an investment of £100 million to support HMS Queen Elizabeth ...