HMS Glasgow takes its first trip down the River Clyde on a semi-submersible barge.
The next two ships in the class, HMS Cardiff and the HMS Belfast, are already under construction in Glasgow.
It was once envisaged that the Royal Navy would need 13 Type 26 frigates, but that plan changed after the 2015 Strategic Defence Review. Instead, the MoD decided it would order eight Type 26 frigates and at least five Type 31e frigates - a cheaper, more general purpose class of vessel.Shipyard takeover 'wasted' £200m of public money
The Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow was part of the consortium that won the bid to build the Type 31 ships - but went into administration and was nationalised before it could benefit from the work. Harland and Wolff in Belfast was also part of that winning consortium, but it too went into administration meaning that all the work is currently being carried out at Rosyth.
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