HMNB Clyde
His Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde, primarily sited at Faslane on the Gare Loch, is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Military installation
- Description: Royal Navy base in Scotland
- Also known as: “His Majesty’s Naval Base, Clyde” and “HM Naval Base, Clyde”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Garelochhead railway station and RNAD Coulport.
Garelochhead railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Garelochhead railway station is a railway station serving the village of Garelochhead, on the Gare Loch, in Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line and is a boundary station for SPT. Garelochhead railway station is situated 1¼ miles north of HMNB Clyde.
RNAD Coulport
Military installation
Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Naval Armaments Depot Coulport, shortened to RNAD Coulport, on Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland, is the storage and loading facility for the nuclear warheads of the United Kingdom's Trident programme. RNAD Coulport is situated 2 miles west of HMNB Clyde.
Shandon House, Shore Road, Shandon
Building
Photo: George Rankin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shandon House, Shore Road, Shandon is a building, which is situated 1 mile southeast of HMNB Clyde.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rahane and Garelochhead.
Rahane
Hamlet
Photo: George Rankin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rahane is a clachan in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, on the west bank of the Gare Loch in the Rosneath peninsula, 2.3 miles south of the larger settlement of Garelochhead and 11 miles northwest by road from the town of Helensburgh.
Garelochhead
Village
Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garelochhead is a small town on the Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is the nearest town to the HMNB Clyde naval base. Garelochhead lies 7 miles northwest of Helensburgh. Loch Lomond is a few miles to the east, and Loch Long to the west.
Shandon
Village
Photo: George Rankin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shandon is a village on the open sea loch of the Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Shandon overlooks the Rosneath Peninsula to the west and is bordered by Glen Fruin to the east, which is the site of the Battle of Glen Fruin, one of the last clan… Shandon is situated 2 miles southeast of HMNB Clyde.
HMNB Clyde
- Category: naval base
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.06092° or 56° 3′ 39″ northLongitude
-4.8211° or 4° 49′ 16″ westOperator
Royal NavyOpen location code
9C8Q356H+9HOpenStreetMap ID
way 163732109OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryOpenStreetMap feature
military=baseGeoNames ID
2649634Wikidata ID
Q628776
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“HMNB Clyde” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إتش إم إن بي كلايد”
- Cebuano: “Faslane Base”
- Chinese: “Faslane海军基地”
- Chinese: “Faslane海軍基地”
- Chinese: “克莱德海军基地”
- Chinese: “克莱德皇家海军基地”
- Chinese: “克萊德海軍基地（HMNB Clyde）”
- Chinese: “克萊德皇家海軍基地”
- Chinese: “法斯萊恩”
- Czech: “HMNB Clyde”
- Danish: “HMNB Clyde”
- Dutch: “Faslane”
- Finnish: “HMNB Clyde”
- French: “base navale de Clyde”
- French: “base navale de Faslane”
- French: “Clyde Submarine Base”
- French: “His Majesty’s Naval Base, Clyde”
- French: “HMNB Clyde”
- French: “HMS Neptune”
- German: “Faslane-on-Clyde”
- German: “Клайд (военно-морская база)”
- Hebrew: “בסיס הצי המלכותי קלייד”
- Italian: “HMNB Clyde”
- Japanese: “クライド海軍基地”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “HM Naval Base Clyde”
- Norwegian: “HM Naval Base Clyde”
- Polish: “HMNB Clyde”
- Portuguese: “HMNB Clyde”
- Russian: “Клайд (военно-морская база)”
- Russian: “Клайд”
- Scots: “HMNB Clyde”
- Slovenian: “HMNB Clyde”
- Spanish: “Base Naval de Clyde”
- Spanish: “Base Naval de Su Majestad de Clyde”
- Spanish: “Her Majesty’s Naval Base, Clyde”
- Spanish: “HMNB Clyde”
- Spanish: “HMS Neptune”
- Swedish: “Faslane Base”
- Swedish: “HMNB Clyde”
- Turkish: “Clyde Donanma Üssü”
- Ukrainian: “Клайд”
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