"River" class Patrol Ships.

In these times of "Government Inflicted Austerity" wouldn't it make more sense to build more of these style of ships ?.
Rather than concentrating on "Aircraft Carriers" with no planes to fly off them, or "Multi Billion £" Type 45 Destroyers,
building a slightly larger and up-armed version of these, with a reasonable 3" or 4" gun,
making them all "helicopter capable", and able to carry a Royal Marine detachment,
would provide much needed work for "British" yards, a fairly capable medium sized warship,
and result in a "Royal Navy" that just might have more ships than "Admirals".
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Clyde. P257 - 3 photo's.

Photo 1 above courtesy of Mr. William Maclennan.	Photo's 2 and 3 above courtesy of Mr. Neil Watkin and were taken as she left Portsmouth in Aug. 2007

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Tyne. P281 - 6 photo's.

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Severn. P282. - 4 photo's. + a short video clip.

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To view a short video clip of her in Plymouth Sound please click on the image below.

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Mersey. P283. - 3 photo's.

		photo 3 above courtesy of Mr. William Maclennan.

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To view a video clip of her crossing "Plymouth Sound" on Tuesday 27th January 2015 please click on the Image below.

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