Faslane (bay)
Faslane on Gare Loch is the name of a bay near the village of Garelochhead, and is now the main part of HM Naval Base Clyde in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, as well as being a Defence Logistics Organisation port, operated in dual site organisation with Great Harbour, Greenock, by Serco Denholm.[1]
Faslane is currently home to United Kingdom's Trident SSBN submarines
There is also Faslane Peace Camp outside the base, protesting since 1982 against the nuclear missiles and submarines there.
[edit] History
The immediate area was sparsely populated until a naval base was constructed during World War II, though Garelochhead was already a thriving village served by Clyde steamers and a railway station. A shipbreakers operated at Faslane until the mid 1980s, when its site was taken over by expansion on the naval base.
[edit] See also
- Faslane Castle, Shandon Castle, and St Michael's Chapel, ruinous sites of two former castles and a chapel, in the area of Faslane
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "Marine Services Planning Agreement". Serco. http://www.serco.com/media/pressreleases/2002/014_2002.asp. Retrieved 2009-07-25.[dead link]
Coordinates: 56°3′53″N 4°49′20″W / 56.06472°N 4.82222°W
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