Originally Posted by
Asturias56
the bit about the T26's came from Conrad Waters - the Editor of World Naval Review. The idea seems to have been to perfect the systems for moving and assembling different bits in one place. Of course it's probably just some flim-flam to explain why it was given to Scotland. Hasn't worked out too well.
You mean like any normal shipyard from the seventies onwards? Or indeed a more ambitious ask as done for the carriers and in fact the LSDA and T45 before them? I suspect a journalist (however well respected) either swallowed a line from a BAES higher-up or made two plus two equal five.
There was no flim-flam whatsoever in awarding the contract to the Clyde. As per previous posts it was an explicit provision of the ToBA, which in turn was enabled by the closure of the Portsmouth shipbuilding facility (a BAES decision).