§ Mr. Trotterasked the Secretary of State for Defence what warships he expects to be (a) completed and (b) withdrawn from service for such future period as is covered by unclassified information.
§ Mr. Ian StewartWe expect the following ships to enter service by the end of 1987:
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Type Ship HMS Carrier Ark Royal
Type Ship HMS Gloucester Edinburgh Type 42s York HMS Boxer Beaver Brave Type 22s 08–12 HMS Trafalgar Turbulent Tireless SSNs Torbay HMS Cottesmore Middleton Dulverton Chiddingfold Hunt Class Hurworth HMS Waveney Carron Dovey Fleet Helford Minesweepers 05–12 Seabed Operations HMS Vessel Challenger Peacock Plover Starling Hong Kong Swallow Patrol Craft Swift For information on our current plans for withdrawing ships from active service, I refer my hon. Friend to the answers given to the hon. Member for Haltemprice (Sir P. Wall)—[Vol. 31, c. 88; Vol. 34, c. 6161—although a number of the ships originally planned for withdrawal in 1983 will be run on until 1984.