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Type 26 of the Royal Navy – for Christening There Was Whisky - Marineforum

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Eight months after the first steel cut, the ship was completed at the Scotstoun shipyard of BAE Systems and decorated for christening by Princess Kate: "Glasgow, the type ship of the 6900-ton type 26 class of the Royal Navy. Baptised not with sparkling wine, but traditionally with a bottle of Scottish whisky. It is nevertheless over the centuries the twelfth ship of his majesty, which bears the name of the city. The usual flyby by a P-8A Poseido…
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Eight months after the first steel cut, the ship was completed at the Scotstoun shipyard of BAE Systems and decorated for christening by Princess Kate: "Glasgow, the type ship of the 6900-ton type 26 class of the Royal Navy. Baptised not with sparkling wine, but traditionally with a bottle of Scottish whisky. It is nevertheless over the centuries the twelfth ship of his majesty, which bears the name of the city. The usual flyby by a P-8A Poseido…

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marineforum broke the news in on Thursday, July 17, 2025.
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