KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept 8 (Bernama-PRNewswire) — HMS Tamar and HMS Spey have departed Portsmouth in advance of their historic deployment to the Indo-Pacific. During the deployment, BAE Systems’ global deployed support team will maintain the vessels wherever operationally required. The arrangement allows the Royal Navy to be highly agile and is underwritten by BAE Systems’ global success in support of Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) around the world under the Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) contract, which delivered an unprecedented 98% Operational Availability of the Royal Navy’s OPV fleet in 2020.
BAE Systems has been closely involved with HMS Tamar and Spey since build. The ships were designed and built at the Company’s shipyards on the River Clyde and the Company has supported the vessels since they were commissioned into the Royal Navy over the last year.