Fears the naval facility would close have now ended as the Rosyth site turns to the control of the Royal Navy.
The future of MOD Caledonia has been secured as it returns to the control of the Royal Navy. After being managed by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), the establishment was recommissioned as HMS Caledonia on April 1st, with His Majesty The King approving the move.
The transition back to Navy Command will see HMS Caledonia revitalising its role as a Naval Support Activity for the growing Royal Navy presence at nearby Babcock Rosyth, while also supporting Scottish shipbuilding on the Forth and Clyde.
Initially commissioned in 1946 as a Naval artificers training establishment, HMS Caledonia’s role evolved into an RN Support Establishment for naval activity in Rosyth Royal Dockyard after the closure of HMNB Rosyth and its tender establishment HMS Cochrane in 1995. The site was transferred to the Defence Infrastructure Organisation in 2011 as “MOD Caledonia,” coinciding with Babcock Rosyth acquiring the nearby dockyard.
The Roya Navy say here that HMS Caledonia will continue to support the Royal Navy Headquarters Scotland and Northern Ireland, Maritime Reserve units HMS Scotia and Royal Marines Reserve Scotland, the Royal Marine Scotland Band, the Royal Navy’s Candidate Preparation Centre-North, as well as RN and RM Cadet training facilities and other youth organisations.
Good. It has been on the chopping block for a while.
It is indicative that a long term future is seen for the yard and ship building there.
The crews need somewhere to work while taking on a ship.
I’m sure someone will say bunk down on board but they are effectively building sites so that isn’t very safe or restful as the environmental systems won’t be running!
The MOD has to keep this facility as its the only place they can fix their duff A/carriers !
Ha. Just for interest, and being pedantic, the old Rosyth Royal Dockyard is not MoD Caledonia. The Caledonia facility can be seen in the article’s main photo as the far area of buildings beyond the line of trees.
Yeah, I was slightly confused about that. I had to look it up.
A part broke because of some shaft alignment went out of whack.
It happens. It will be fixed.
QEC herself has been a very good ship.
Sadly the photo is of the “nearby” Babcock Rosyth Dockyard, not HMS Caledonia!
It’s a speck in the background.
Good Morning from 19deg C Durban 5am.
Looking at that photo I am still amazed how the QE’s managed to squeeze through that narrow channel into open water! Hats off to crew behind that move. Very little room to avoid a costly(and embarassing) cock-up!😬
Knowing the DIO and its record on accommodation its probably still the total S*** hole it was in 86-88 when I was there refitting Brum and the Leander Refit Group was in use.
The Bop was good though😉
Don’t worry, the Daily Mail will get the inside scoop from an angry ex-squaddie with an axe to grind and access to Whatsapp groups.
I thought it was heavily refurbed when the QECs were in build as part of that budget?
Complete waste of money. The UK as part of NATO has started a war with Russia, we are in the phoney war now but when the real shooting starts this facility will be gone quite literally in a flash. It is time the UK stopped wasting taxpayer’s funds on trying to make the rich even richer at everyone else’s expense by trying to murder people in the other parts of the world that quite rightly refuse to be colonised by the degenerate “western” ideologies being pushed by “our” elites.
Hang on shippers…Give me your address and I will send you a slip stone to grind your axe on…
Thats good news. The Scottish are master technicians