A 25-year-old Trident submariner who died in unexplained circumstances on the Faslane naval base on Thursday has been named as engineering technician Stephen Cashman by the Royal Navy.
Police Scotland is constant to analyze the sudden loss of life, first reported to officers at 12.30pm on Thursday, which is believed to have taken place within the barracks on the base for Britain’s nuclear deterrent.
A Royal Navy spokesperson stated that Cashman’s kinfolk had now been knowledgeable. “Our ideas and sympathies are with Stephen’s household and pals at this tough time and we request their privateness is revered,” they stated.
Earlier, defence sources had indicated the deceased was a junior crew member who labored on a Vanguard-class vessel that carries the UK’s Trident missiles.
A Police Scotland spokesperson stated: “A postmortem examination can be carried out to determine the precise explanation for loss of life, which is at the moment being handled as unexplained. A report can be submitted to the procurator fiscal.”
Faslane is the house base to the UK’s nuclear-armed submarines, together with the 4 Vanguard-class vessels, and was a setting in latest BBC drama Vigil. Additionally primarily based there are the Astute-class fleet of hunter-killer submarines.
There are about 5,000 submariners who crew the vessels, and the deceased would have been well-known across the small, comparatively closed group on the lochside base, off the Clyde, 33 miles west of Glasgow.
Groups are deployed underwater for a number of months at a time earlier than returning to base for the same interval for coaching and to assist keep the boats as obligatory.
Faslane’s sister base at Coulport, which shops and companies Trident missile warheads, faces a collection of unrelated one-day strikes by 70 civilian staff with the Unite union.