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 | | Friday, 15 March, 2002, 14:55 GMT Duke names royal dock for Trident  The historic dock had to be enlarged for HMS Vanguard Plymouth's newly revamped Trident submarine refit complex has been formally renamed The Queen's Golden Jubilee Dock. The ceremony was performed at Devonport Dockyard on Friday by the Duke of Edinburgh, in his role as Admiral of the Fleet. Devonport won the contract to refit Trident-carrying Vanguard submarines five years ago, taking it from Rosyth dockyard in Scotland. The yard's Number Nine dock, which was built at the turn of the last century, had to be lined with massive earthquake-proof pillars and 50 "seismically-hardened" cradle supports.
Prince Philip made no speech at the unveiling of the new name plaque - which took place only a week after dockyard operator DML received consent to rename the facility. The first of the 16,000-tonne submarines due for refit, HMS Vanguard, arrived in Plymouth a month ago. The 150-metre vessel had to squeeze into the dockyard's Number Five basin. It has taken five years of work, involving 40,000 people, to prepare the new complex. DML was awarded the �5bn contract in 1993. At the time, a spokesman said: "It was very important to us and ensured the survival of Devonport." | |    See also: Internet links: The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top England stories now:  Links to more England stories are at the foot of the page. | |||||||||||||||||||
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