Jinxed nuclear submarine’s malfunction could have killed its entire crew
The Royal Navy's latest £1.2 billion nuclear submarine, HMS Astute, has been towed back to base after a malfunction which could have killed the entire crew, the Sunday Herald can reveal.
HMS Astute has been at the centre of a series of bad news stories
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The hi-tech stealth vessel was taken to the Faslane Naval Base on the Clyde late on Friday when it suffered “a technical issue with hydraulics”, according to a Ministry of Defence (MoD) source.
“This needs to be fixed to make sure it can dive properly,” the source said. “It could take days, or it could take weeks.”
