Fleet Solid Support ships

Navantia UK opens new Belfast fabrication hall to build three Royal Fleet Auxiliary support ships

Navantia UK has opened the expanded Resurgent Hall at its Harland & Wolff Belfast yard to support construction of three Royal Fleet Auxiliary Fleet Solid Support ships. The facility adds 5,000 square metres of fabrication space with new cranes, robotic plasma cutting and a mechanised panel line. Belfast accounts for approximately £100 million of Navantia UK's £157 million investment across four British shipyards, supporting around 900 skilled jobs and apprenticeships locally. The ships will carry ammunition, provisions and other stores for deployed naval groups, with sections built at several yards before final integration in Belfast.