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Friday, December 14, 2012

Babcock delivers Type 23 frigate on-time, in-budget

HMS Portland |Type 23 frigate HMS Portland left Babcock’s Rosyth dockyard today, Thursday 13 December, to return to her base port of Plymouth at peak effectiveness following significant upgrades and improvements, after successful completion of a substantial upgrade and maintenance programme.

The project has benefited from close partnering between Babcock, the MoD, ship’s staff and the COM team under the Surface Ship Support Alliance to deliver the programme with maximum efficiency at minimised cost, representing optimum value for money.

HMS Portland received 19 major system and capability upgrades during the demanding and tightly scheduled 50 week refit.

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