On this day in 2010 HMS Astute was commissioned into the Royal Navy. HMS Astute symbolises how far the ‘silent service’ has come in a century. Her keel was laid almost 100 years to the day of Holland 1, the first Royal Navy submarine.

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MoD says the decommissioned nuclear submarine dismantling project at Rosyth is making positive progress with time taken for each boat being reduced. The bulk of accessible low-level nuclear waste has been safely removed from ex-HMS Swiftsure, Resolution, Revenge and Repulse.

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