Penny Mordaunt guidelines the waves as she unveils three ships to exchange Britannia

Penny Mordaunt has unveiled designs for 3 new ships to exchange the Royal Yacht Britannia and characterize Brexit Britain all over the world.

The new ships are the end result of a five-year challenge by the Leader of the House who undertook the work as a part of her position as MP for Portsmouth North.

The 135-metre vessels will act as platforms to advertise British commerce, be used for worldwide emergency interventions and are tipped to even take care of the immigration disaster.

Ms Mordaunt advised the Daily Express the vessels, which can be privately funded and constructed at shipyards within the UK, imply “the spirit of the Royal Yacht Britannia will live on”.

She stated they are going to “fly the flag” for the UK and “perform the role the Royal Yacht would have performed if it was around now”.

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The challenge places an finish to the lengthy hypothesis over what’s going to substitute Britannia after the outdated Royal Yacht was mothballed by Tony Blair’s authorities.

Ms Mordaunt stated: “The UK is a proud maritime nation, whose expertise is recognised and respected around the world.

“These multi-purpose ships seek to build on this by providing additional capacity to our existing fleets to deliver additional training, scientific research and disaster relief, while giving businesses space to show off innovative British products and services.

“They are not designed merely to replicate what we had in the past, but are based on a serious and detailed assessment of what the country needs in the future in a cost-effective way by working closely with the private sector.

“These ships will fly the flag for the UK and will provide important additional resources for humanitarian relief and scientific research.

“Their construction and maintenance will benefit the whole maritime sector, providing vital opportunities to train the next generation of shipwrights, captains, navigators and engineers.”

She added: “They will benefit regions across the UK, including in my constituency of Portsmouth North, whose port and maritime sector will I hope play an important role in the life of these vessels for years to come.”

Speaking concerning the outdated Royal Yacht, now completely moored in Edinburgh, she stated: “I understand the comparisons to Britannia having grown up in the home port of Portsmouth.

“She was iconic. If Britannia were around today this is what she’d be doing- showcasing the best of what our nation has to offer and working in partnership internationally.”

The boats can be 50 % manned by apprentices and supply a coaching platform for service provider navy of UK and Commonwealth nations, producing revenue.

They will assist meet the federal government levelling up targets and assist the UK shipbuilding technique. Ambition is to have vessels can be one hundred pc UK-built, smoothing out fallow interval in UK yards.

The ships will ship mariner coaching, scientific analysis, catastrophe reduction, safe lodging and communications, freight and passenger companies and an area for British companies to showcase their modern services and products.

Unlike the outdated Royal Yacht there can be no invoice or legal responsibility for UK taxpayer with the primary one estimated to price £150 million and the opposite two considerably much less.

Shipyards in Portsmouth, Devon, the North East, Scotland and Northern Ireland are anticipated to hold out the work on the challenge.