Excellent RAND paper ORAC - one hopes that someone read it in the last 14 years..... but I doubt it
the second article contained this:-
"A senior Royal Navy source told us the Royal Navy could live with the new plan because it was struggling to crew and support its existing fleet of five Astute submarines. The sixth Astute, HMS Agamemnon is in the Devonshire dock, outside the DDH working up to handed over to the Royal Navy later this year, so she unaffected by the fire. "
It's hard to believe just what a state things are in isn't it..........................