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Navy's new carriers are too big for British ports
Antony Barnett, public affairs editor
Sunday May 26, 2002
The Observer
Britain's empire was built on the ability of its master shipbuilders to construct ships
capable of reaching any corner of the world.
Similar feats could soon be impossible thanks to an astonishing blunder by defence
chiefs: the next generation of aircraft carriers will be unable to dock at any British
port
because they will be too big.
Royal Navy insiders have told The Observer the problem has forced the MoD to
conduct an urgent review of naval bases around Britain.
One option being considered is to reopen Portland base in Dorset, which the MoD
closed 10 years ago at a cost of £300 million.
Facilities were transferred to Portsmouth, yet it now appears Portsmouth harbour is
not deep enough to accommodate the two new aircraft carriers commissioned by the
MoD at a cost of £2.5 billion, which will be twice as large as existing vessels.
Devonport is also unable to take them, and Navy sources suggest nor could Rosyth.
Mike Hancock, Liberal Democrat MP for Portsmouth South and a member of the
House of Commons defence select committee, claimed that there would be a
political motive behind any move to reopen Portland in order to benefit local Labour
MPs.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2002
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