Faslane (bay)
Faslane (Gaelic: Am Fas Leathann) on Gare Loch is the name of a bay near the village of Garelochhead, and is now the main part of HM Naval Base Clyde in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, as well as being a Defence Logistics Organisation port, operated in dual site organisation with Great Harbour, Greenock, by Serco Denholm.[1]
Faslane is currently home to the United Kingdom's Trident SSBN submarines
There is also Faslane Peace Camp outside the base, protesting since 1982 against the nuclear missiles and submarines there.
History edit
The immediate area was sparsely populated until a naval base was constructed during World War II, though Garelochhead was already a thriving village served by Clyde steamers and a railway station. A shipbreakers operated at Faslane until the mid-1980s, when its site was taken over for expansion of the naval base.
See also edit
- Faslane Castle, Shandon Castle, and St Michael's Chapel, ruinous sites of two former castles and a chapel, in the area of Faslane
Footnotes edit
- ^ . Serco. Archived from the original on 1 April 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2009.
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