Astute-class contract for CSC
Posted on 01 Feb 2013. Edited by: John Hunter. Read 3413 times.
Chesterfield Special Cylinders has won a contract worth £2 million to supply high-pressure gas cylinders for the Royal Navy’s sixth Astute-class submarine. Sheffield-based CSC will provide the cylinders for HMS Agamemnon, which is currently being built at Barrow-in-Furness by BAE Systems Submarine Solutions.
The order takes the value of CSC’s contracts for the Astute-class submarines to more than £12 million. The cylinders are critical to a number of vital operations within the vessels, including breathing-gas storage, hydraulic and valve actuation back-up, ballast operation and missile-launch systems. CSC has been supplying high-pressure gas storage cylinders for Royal Navy ships and submarines since the 1930s.