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Faslane 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.

Faslane is currently home to British Trident Nuclear submarines

There is also Faslane Peace Camp outside the base, protesting since 1982 against the nuclear missiles and submarines there.

History


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 by expansion on the naval base.

Argyll and Bute | Shipbuilding / shipbreaking localities of Scotland

 

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