Onboard workshops and distant deployments

Do modern Royal Navy ships still carry machine shops?

Yes; they combine onboard repair spaces with external logistics, and ships expected to deploy farther may receive more self-maintenance capacity.

Modern Royal Navy ships still carry workshops within their engineering spaces. Crews can manufacture or repair some items onboard even though the ship also depends on a larger logistics network. Type 31 is expected to spend long periods far from home, making a relatively generous self-maintenance capacity especially useful. Tools such as 3D printers could become part of that distant-deployment workshop.