Gibraltar Govt and MoD set for Rocky Pigeon nuclear preparedness exercise

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Complaints against having these subs close to the population have been ignored (article from May 2017 below).

The image on the cover of the booklet looks similar to (a variation of) the nuclear sub that caught on fire.

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Nuclear-armed Navy submarine aborted top secret mission due to life-or-death fire beneath the waves A NUCLEAR-armed Navy submarine had to abort a top secret mission because of a life-or-death fire beneath the waves. HMS Victorious was carrying Trident 2 missiles when the electrical blaze broke out. [royal.navy.sub] The £3billion Vanguard-class nuclear submarine shot to the surface as the captain declared “emergency stations”. Every member of the 130-plus crew, including those off-duty, w…

Article below dates back to May 30, 2017:

https://thediplomatinspain.com/en/2017/05/ecologists-criticise-arrival-to-gibraltar-of-nuclear-submarine-hms-torbay/

Ecologists in Action expressed its discontent caused yesterday by the arrival to the port of Gibraltar of a new nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy: the ‘HMS Torbay N79’.

The ecologist group “misses” the opposition of the Gibraltarian population to the stay of these “floating bombs” in the Bay of Gibraltar. Verdemar remembers that “no nuclear submarine is safe” and regrets that, despite the technological advances, “they do not look for places more distant from the population” for port of calls.