executed within the allotted budget. 'A challenge had been issued and a challenge was going to be met'.
THE BUILD PROGRAMME
The programme was authorized in February 1963; the submarines were to be built in pairs, with maximum speed, by Vickers (acting as Lead Yard) and Cammell Laird. An order for a fifth SSBN was announced in 1964, but was cancelled by a new Labour Government the following year. The keel of the first-of-class, HMS Resolution, was laid down at Barrow on 26th February, 1964, and represented for Vickers the sternest test the yard had had for many a year.
The planning and design effort which went into the Polaris
