Royal Navy’s latest submarine is named Agamemnon

Equipped with world-leading sensors, the Astute-class carry both Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missiles (TLAM) and Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes.

Monday’s ceremony was attended by James Cartlidge, the Minister for Defence Procurement, and included an address by the boat’s Lady Sponsor, Lady SJ Sedwill, the wife of Lord Mark Sedwill, the former UK national security adviser.

Steve Timms, managing director at BAE Systems’ submarines business, said: “This is a key milestone for Agamemnon and the UK nuclear submarine programme, and contributes to the Government’s defence nuclear enterprise command paper, which underpinned the importance of our business and Barrow in delivering this national endeavour.”