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Royal Navy
RN. the navy of the United Kingdom
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Each Royal Navy ship is being built at a cost of £250m at the price set in 2019.
The first of the Royal Navy's Type 31 ships, to be named HMS Venturer, has already been floated in the Firth of Forth and is in dry dock being fitted out.
Babcock's director of the Type 31 programme, former Second Sea Lord in the Royal Navy, Admiral Sir Nick Hine, said the priorities for buying ships has long been "performance, cost and timing" and that has now been reversed.
Babcock says that the current Rosyth workforce of 2,500 could rise to 4,000 if it is successful in winning the Danish and Swedish bids, along with its other work in maintenance of the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers.
The boom in exports, following a contract to build five Type 31 ships for Britain's Royal Navy, marks a rapid turnaround for Scottish shipbuilding.
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