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'It would be comforting to imagine

DOING THEBUSINESSAT FASLANETHERE'S a new jargon to describe the changing face of the Navy in Scotland.

It is the phraseology of the decade, a management-speak which peppers theService's computer print-outs North and South. Its dictionary includes such

terms as business areas, people factors, customers, competing for quality, privatefinance initiatives, outputs (otherwise tasks) and corporate plans.

Few of them would be recog-nised even five years ago as hav-ing associations with a militaryservice. But that, like every-thing, has changed.

The words thai have beenimported lo express the RoyalNavy's drive for efficiency in aworld of financial realism do notbasically mailer. Whal does maileris lhat necessary change is effectedsuccessfully.

No one would agree more withthat than Ihe man who has Ihe keyrole in Ihe major upheaval which istransforming what is now theService's Scottish nerve centre sincethe closure of Rosylh Naval Base.

Commodore Eric Thompson, Ihenew Director of Ihe recentlyrenamed HM Naval Base Clyde (itwas called Clyde Submarine Base)is the man who, as Chief of Slaff toFlag Officer Scolland, NorthernEngland and Northern Ireland,drafted FOSNNI's Corporate Planfor 1996-2000.

Historic move"It would be comforting lo imag-

ine lhal Ihere will be no morechange, bul change is now the normand we must regard change man-agement as one of our standard dis-ciplines," he lold Navy News.

He sees Ihe Iransfer of FOSNNIlo Faslane as an historic move.

"It has been quite a bigupheaval for the establish-ment, yet it is an organisa-tional success story. Wehave integrated the supplyorganisation in Scotland,the Naval base organisa-tion, and operations - and ithas been done harmo-niously."The main purpose of the Clyde

base remains the support of theBritish nuclear deterrenl - Tridentand Polaris missiles deployed in IheVanguard-class vessels and HMSRepulse.

But since Rosylh's demise as aNaval base, Faslane's responsibili-ties encompass the five surfaceships of the Third MineCountermeasures Squadron andsupport for many British and olherNATO ships which lake part inJoint Maritime Courses - majortraining exercises - three times ayear.

Welcome sight"The firsl impact of the changes

is that Faslane is now seeing greyships in numbers, and a very wel-come sight it is, too," saidCommodore Thompson, who ishimself a Scot - from Coalbridge.

His background is engineeringand he has a Master's degree inacoustics, although to read IheCorporate Plan one mighl be for-given for Ihinking him a graduate inbusiness studies.

He will need all Ihe business acu-men he can muster, for the nextmajor change to affect Ihe base will

Cover picture: HMSSuperb in the Clyde.

Commodore Thompson... hisaim is to provide high qualitysupport.

be the results of a market testingreview - "Competing for Quality" -due early this summer. Followingthat, all activities which need not bekept "in-house" may be open tocompetition.

"To cope successfully with changeon top of an already high loadingwill demand the very best from ourpeople," he said. "But amidst all thedaily distractions we must neverlose sight of the aim which is to pro-vide high quality support to Navaloperations and other tasks whichdepend on us."

Mixed feelingsInevitably, there have been mixed

feelings over the move to the Clyde.Few who made the migration denythe fact that there was greater sad-ness at leaving Rosylh than therewas joy at arriving at Faslane.

Capt Roy Harding sees thebiggest challenge as yet to come. Heis the Captain of HMS Neptune,Faslane's administrative centre."We have to sort out the manage-

ment structure so we don't wastetime doing business . . . The nexttwo years are going to be immense-ly busy and the face of Faslane isgoing to change.

"The submariners will still claimthat it is principally a submarinebase, which is not untrue in terms ofweight of numbers, but we will startto get more surface ships here.

"Recently HMS Lancaster camein for a couple of days, Cornwall isnoise ranging and is coming in laterin the week.

"When the Type 22s and23s come up for noise rang-ing it is far more likely thatwe will see them. Faslanewill develop into a morerecognisable naval base."Capt Harding is in charge of an

organisation which provides every-thing for about 4,000 Servicemen -shore and sea based - and someother facilities for about 4,000 civil-ians. With the closure of Rosylh histask, and thai of Base SupplyOfficer Cdr Bill Jones has increasedby 25 per cenl.

There will be some easing of Iheweighl with the disappearance ofthe support "bulge" caused by Ihedual operation of Tridenl andPolaris submarines.

HMS CaledoniaThe lasl of Ihe older boals, HMS

Repulse, decommissions Ihis year.However, wilh Rosylh's closure,Faslane's "empire", besides MCM3,now includes Ihe newly re-commis-sioned HMS Caledonia, an eslab-lishmenl on Ihe Forlh providingsupport for personnel of ships inrefit at the privately run dockyard atRosylh.

Essenlially Caledonia is an out-slalion of Neptune and currenllyaccommodates 500 personnel, wilha further 300 living outside theestablishment because it has insuffi-cient accommodation. In addition,Faslane now has responsibility forthe University RN Units at

Bordering on newera of friendship

FASLANE has entered what is hoped to be a new eraof good community relations following council bor-der changes which on April 1 brought the Clyde basewithin the unitary authority of Argyll and Bute.

Representatives from the council have already beenguests at Faslane - which in terms of employment andcouncil tax will be a principal money generator for theauthority.

The Commander of the Third Mine CountemeasuresSquadron, Cdr Richard Simmonds, is particularly lookingforward to the chance to forge strong affiliations betweenhis ships and Argyll and Bute.

A "Scotophile", he plans to adopt the Argyll flag as anunofficial squadron ensign and to write to communitieswithin the authority boundaries suggesting affiliations.

"Submarines are never seen, so it's important that localpeople see us and come to known us as the British ratherthan the English Navy," he said.

"Our ships can show the White Ensign so that we can beseen to be part of the local communities."

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that there will be no more change, but change is now the norm ...'

ABOVE: 'Grey ships' at Faslane . . . HMS Battleaxe and (inboard)HMS Monmouth, visitors during the first Clyde-based JointMaritime Course which was run earlier this year.RIGHT: The Trident submarine HMS Vanguard gets a spot ofFaslane's quality support in the massive shiplifl.

Glasgow, Aberdeen, Newcastle andLiverpool.

Cdr Jones ("I supply everythingfrom a pin to an anchor"), sees trav-elling expenses as a yardstick bywhich he may measure increasedproductivity. "They have run updramatically," he said. "At themoment we spend about £400,000 amonth in travelling expenses, a rise

of a quarter, accounted for princi-pally by sailors who live on the eastcoast around Rosylh."

Meanwhile the number of peoplehe has to carry out the work hasincreased by little over ten per cent.His assertion that people workharder at Faslane than at any otherNaval base in the country isexpressed with conviction.

It all started withone old ship . . .

The first seeds are sown . . .HMS Maidstone, submarinedepot ship and a veteran ofWorld War II, arrived in theGareloch in 1958.

THE CLYDE Naval Base at Faslane on theGareloch takes its name from FaslaneBay on which it is built. There has beensome form of Naval presence in the areasince the World War I, and among thenotable submarine events was the sink-ing of the ill-conceived, steam-driven ves-sel K13 off Rhu in 1917.

The Navy's presence on the Clyde intensi-fied during Hitler's War and in 1943 the FaslaneBay site was acquired by the Navy. The areabecame an operating base for submarinesdeployed into the Greenland-lceland-Faroes'gaps to counter German raiders breaking outinto the Atlantic. It was also a submarine andanti-submarine warfare training area.

Among the key dates in the post-war historyof the base are:

1358 -The submarine depot ship HMS Maid-stone arrives in Faslane Bay to become theforerunner of today's complex.

1962 - Nassau Agreement signed betweenUS and UK for sale of Polaris.

1963 - Britain's first nuclear powered sub-marine, HMS Dreadnought, arrives at Faslane.First RN personnel begin Polaris training in

USA. Expansion of the Clyde Submarine Baseproceeds.

1966 - Britain's first Polaris submarine, HMSResolution, launched to be followed at six-monthly intervals by Renown, Repulse andRevenge.

1967 - HMS Neptune commissioned. HMSResolution arrives at Faslane.

1968 - Resolution deployed on first opera-tional patrol.

1984 - Announcement that Britain wouldbuy the Trident missile system to replacePolaris. More building starts at Faslane tocater for much larger class of SSBNs.

1992 - Launch of HMS Vanguard, first of theTrident submarines. Arrives at Faslane in sameyear to begin sea trials.

1993 - The Third Submarine Squadron offleet boats, and the Tenth of ballistic-missilearmed vessels, merge to become the FirstSubmarine Squadron.

1994-95 - HMS Vanguard deploys on firstTrident patrol.

1996 - Clyde Submarine Base becomesClyde Naval Base following closure of Rosythand transfer to Faslane of Third MCMSquadron.

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Victorious became the RoyalNavy's first ballistic missilearmed vessel to leave Faslanewith sub-stra

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strate rident missilesembariiced.The propulsion systems of

both missiles are identical - It isIn the warheads that they differ.The sub-strategic version has alower-yield, less powerfulnuclear head, more suitable as adeterrent to any rogue nationwhich may threaten Britain withweapons of mass destruction.The new system as deployed

in the V-class boats of the FirstSubmarine Squadron is an accu-rate, flexible and cost-effectivereplacement for the RAF's sub-strategic, air-dropped weapons.Cdr Tom Herman, the

Commander (executive officer)of the Squadron, told Navy Newsthat the four new submarinesthat will eventually be opera-

- and Splendidlaunches trialswith Tomahawktional will have dual capability atall times."We wouldn't necessarily use

the deployed submarine as thesub-strategic boat. We may sailanother specifically in that role,so we have the flexibility ofdoing either or both.

'Uncertain world'"The international situation is

significantly more unstable thanit was during the latter half ofthe Cold War.

"There is a proliferation ofcountries that have access tonuclear weaponry and otherweapons of mass destruction.These present a threat in thehands of less stable govern-ments, and there are many more

minor crises that could blow upinto major conflagrations.

"In the very uncertain world inwhich we live a strategic andsub-strategic deterrent is thesurest guarantee for the safetyof this country."Meanwhile, as the first step to

providing the Navy with a hardand surgically accurate tacticalpunch on land, the fleet subma-rine HMS Splendid has achievedthe first successful, inert dis-charge of a Ti cruise missile inLoch Long (the Tomahawks arefired through the submarine'storpedo tubes).

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Challengingnew homefor hi-techSandownsTHE MINEHUNTING men of the Clyde just know that they are the best for the jobthey are expected to do. It is an elan which is given expression by their comman-der whose pride in his ships, men and tasks is obvious from the moment he startstalking about his subject.

"These ships are pretty spe-cial," said Cdr RichardSimmonds of his five Sandown-class vessels which form theThird Mine CountermeasuresSquadron at Faslane. "The classis a revolutionary design - noth-ing in the world can beat them.And we are learning new tricks

as we adapt to the vessels andappreciate their enormouscapability."

One of MCM3's primarywartime roles would be to keep thenarrow waters of the West ofScotland free of mine interferencewith the passage of submarinesinvolved with Britain's nucleardeterrent.

Lt Richard Burstow keeps a close watch on the tow as it begins totake the strain as HMS Berkeley gets under way, towing the "dam-aged" HMS Chiddingfold back towards Faslane. The exercise forthe Southern-based Hunt-class ships formed part of their opera-tional sea training under the eyes of the POST staff on the Clyde.

So, although some may haveregretted the move from the Forthto Faslane, the waters of the Clydeprovide a most appropriate trainingarea.

"It's not quite as accessible andcomfortable as Rosylh, but I sus-pect a factor of that is the 'warmsea-boot syndrome' - we got soused to the Forth that it was justvery comfortable.

"But if you can minehunt in theseextremely challenging trainingareas in the Clyde, with all its freshwater and difficult oceanographicconditions you can reasonablyassume that you can do it anywhereelse.

World leaders"That means we lead the world in

expertise and experience in mine-hunting which is a very dangerousgame if you get it wrong."

Spending between 60 and 70 percent of their time at sea, theSandowns are practising and devel-oping their "new tricks". . .

"We've moved on a quantumleap from the original hull-mountedsonars that were set in the Ton-classin the Sixties," said Cdr Simmonds."The Sandowns are enormouslysophisticated. We now have vari-able depth sonar that goes down to2(K)m.

"It has a whole series of frequen-cies against the challenges posed byenvironment and against contactsthat could be protected againstsonar pulses. And the ships havethe ability to navigate wi th in ametre square as opposed to tens orhundreds of metres square."

More accuracyThat adds up to more accuracy

and more safety. "We've taken thethreat from within 150m - which isquite close when you're tap dancingwith high explosives - way out tothe 1,000m mark."

It's not only MCM3 that exercis-es in the Clyde areas. The mineships of NATO and thePortsmouth-based MCM squadrons- one of which, MCM1, also trans-ferred from Rosylh - regularly trainwhere Ihe deep walers of theScottish West Coast provide them

FAR FROM their "home" in the South, a teamof 27 members of Flag Officer Sea Trainingstaff now occupy a small corner of thesprawling Clyde base.

They provide continuation and basic opera-tional sea training for no fewer than 51 ships -from University RN Unit training vessels of nomore than 49 tonnes to the 1,400-tonne Castle-class patrol vessels.

The team - all sea riders except a civilian in reg-istrv and a CPO oroarammer - are headed bv Cdr

Brian Archibald, Commander Sea Training (MineWarfare and Patrol Vessels).

"We do some work out of Devonport, too," saidCdr Archibald. "And we go overseas - to providesea training for the Gibraltar Squadron annuallyand the Hong Kong Squadron every 18 months."

The training team went to HK last year to con-duct an intensive, three-ship ContinuationOperational Sea Training package. But it all bal-ances out - with two weeks in the Falklands everysix months for HMS Leeds Castle.

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with a healthy test, away from thebusy shipping lanes of the South.

Cdr Simmonds admits that whiletheir first priority is the defence ofhome waters, recent history showsthat Britain's minehunters are farmore likely to see active service as

part of a multi-national force suchas that which opposed SaddamHussein in the Gulf.

The advent of satellite naviga-tion, interfacing with computercommand systems has made themine ships independent of land-based navigation aids, allowing

them to operate easily when friend-ly shores are distant. It is one of themany indicators which show that, inminehunting as in other activities,the Royal Navy has stepped beyondthe Cold War scenario into a newera in which force flexibility is thekey.

THE NORTH . . .Some foreign navies, too, seek out the team's

expertise. "They are truly customers who requirea unique and comprehensive service on a repay-ment basis - such as the Royal Saudi Navy whoare working up in their three Sandown-class minecountermeasures vessels."

Although small in number, the presence of thePOST team at Faslane brings even more surfacewarships into the Clyde from bases in the South.

And with the JMC ships visiting three times ayear, and the resident Sandowns busily plying

their trade, the visibility of the Navy in the Clydehas risen significantly.

It has brought additional - and not unwelcome- work to the base's public relations office. "Weget constant inquiries as to the identity and activ-ities of the surface ships which people see in theClyde," said PRO Steve Willmott.

"One of our regular contacts is a school inCampbeltown where the children produce aschool magazine and include in it reports of theNavy's comings and goings."

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ClydeplansminiNavyDays

THIS SUMMER Faslane willrun what is being seen as amini Navy Days - involvingshore attractions, aircraft anda Royal Navy frigate.

It is a significant expansion ofthe Navy-organised "FaslaneFair", which for years has beenheld each summer in the centre ofHelensburgh, seven miles fromthe high-security Clyde base. Andthere are discussions as to whetherthe event should grow even morein future.

FrigateThis year's show, on Saturday,

June 22, is taking advantage of thepresence of warships for a JointMaritime Course. A frigate will beanchored off the resort town andthere will be a flying programmeinvolving Navy Gazelle, Lynx andSea King helicopters, RoyalMarines parachutists - and, it ishoped - a Sea Harrier.

The officer in charge of arrang-ing the Fair, Base Supply OfficerCdr Bill Jones, said the eventbegan several years ago as a fami-lies day. However, due to securityconcerns it was moved outside thebase to Helensburgh where it hasbecome a highlight on the socialcalendar of the West of Scotland.

Musical attractions this yearwill include FOSNNI's RoyalMarines Band, Strathclyde PoliceBand and local pipe bands. Asusual, charities will be welcome touse the event for fund-raising.

Fishing skipper joins in submarine exerciseNEW liaison methods betweenthe Royal Navy and the Clydefishermen are being hailed as asuccess in improving relationsbetween the two.

"Although differences still exist,there has been remarkable progressin submarine avoidance," theSecretary of the Clyde Fishermen'sAssociation, Patrick Stewart, told

Navy News. "The most important parthas been the freeing-up of communi-cations ...

"For the first time, last November, afishing vessel skipper was employedas a liaison officer on board anaccompanying frigate during an exer-cise involving HM submarineVictorious - and everyone on all sidesremarked on how effective that was indefusing problems."

Now the fishermen hope that simi-lar methods may be used with regardto minehunters - whose activitiessometimes conflict with those of theClyde fishermen. Negotiations havejust been concluded which providefor consultations and the identifica-tion of exercise areas.

"We continue to make sure that ourliaison is extremely fruitful and useful,and I think that increasingly we are

better co-users of the same waterspace," said Cdr Richard Simmonds,Commander of the Third MineCountermeasures Squadron.

"It's right and proper that we givecognisance to their problems andlikewise they are realistic enough toknow that they cannot have exclusiveuse of the area. It's all about gettingon with your neighbour."

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Faslane's eyesin the sky

THE EIGHT Sea King Mk 6 helicopters operated by819 Squadron are responsible for the anti-subma-rine defence of the Clyde, although the details oftheir service to Britain's Trident submarines remainclassified for reasons of national security.

With an additional Mk 5 air-craft dedicated to search andrescue, the squadron operatesfrom HMS Gannet atPrestwick Airport, about 45nautical miles south of Faslane.

During the training ofpotential submarine comman-ders - on the "Perisher" course- 819 flies about 150 hours a

year to provide "enemy heli-copters" which are normallyflown in pairs to search fortheir submerged target.

The squadron also takes partin other regular exercises withsubmarines, such as winchtransfers which provide contin-uation training for sub-mariners and fliers.

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FIVE former married quarters inChurchill Square, Helensburghhave undergone six months' refur-bishment as Faslane's new FamilyCentre - HQ of the NavalPersonal and Family Service inScotland.

Headed by Area Officer DavidJameson, the NPFS team com-prises two managers, administra-tive staff, community workers andOutreach workers.

The Area Office is open at0830-1630 Monday to Thursday,and 0830-1600 on Fridays.Telephone numbers area 01436671674 or 676399, with an ansa-phone (672798) operating out ofworking hours.

There is also an office at theClyde base on the first floor of theRNSQ (SAFAB enquiries on ext4332 or NPFS assistance on ext4329).

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