UK nuclear submarine collides with merchant vessel off Gibraltar - BBC News
Photographs of HMS Ambush arriving in Gibraltar appear to show damage to the front section of its conning tower.
The submarine is reported to be a regular visitor to Gibraltar, having last stopped in the territory in June and March.
One of the Royal Navy's three Astute-class submarines - Britain's largest and most advanced attack submarines - HMS Ambush is 97m (318ft) in length, cost £1.6bn and carries torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
It joined the fleet at the Faslane naval base in 2013 after two years of sea trials. The Royal Navy is due to take delivery of three further Astute-class submarines.
There were protests in 2000 when the Royal Navy nuclear submarine HMS Tireless docked for repairs in Gibraltar after a crack was found in a cooling pipe near its nuclear reactor.
Residents in Gibraltar and southern Spain staged demonstrations over environmental concerns and the presence of the submarine became the subject of a high-profile campaign by Greenpeace.
Photographs of HMS Ambush arriving in Gibraltar appear to show damage to the front section of its conning tower.
The submarine is reported to be a regular visitor to Gibraltar, having last stopped in the territory in June and March.
One of the Royal Navy's three Astute-class submarines - Britain's largest and most advanced attack submarines - HMS Ambush is 97m (318ft) in length, cost £1.6bn and carries torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
It joined the fleet at the Faslane naval base in 2013 after two years of sea trials. The Royal Navy is due to take delivery of three further Astute-class submarines.
There were protests in 2000 when the Royal Navy nuclear submarine HMS Tireless docked for repairs in Gibraltar after a crack was found in a cooling pipe near its nuclear reactor.
Residents in Gibraltar and southern Spain staged demonstrations over environmental concerns and the presence of the submarine became the subject of a high-profile campaign by Greenpeace.