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HMS Mersey (P283)

HMSMersey

Career(UK)

Name: HMSMersey

Operator: Royal Navy

Ordered: April 2001

Builder: Vosper Thornycroft

Launched: 14 June 2003

Sponsored by: Mrs Jennie Reeve

Commissioned: 28 November 2003

Homeport: HMNB Portsmouth

Identification: Pennant number: P283

Status: in active service, as of 2013[1]

General characteristics

Class & type: River-class patrol vessel

Displacement: 1,677 tonnes

Length: 79.9 m

Beam: 13.6 m

Draught: 3.8 m

Propulsion: 2 Ruston 12RK 270 Main engines developing 4,125 kW @ 1,000 rpm

Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h)

Range: 7,800 nautical miles (14,400 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)

Boats &

landing

craft carried:

2 Halmatic Jet Pacific 22 rigid inflatable boats

Complement: 30 (+ Royal Marine boarding party)

Armament: 1 20 mm British Manufacturing and Research Company (BMARC)KAA

2 General purpose machine guns

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The fifth and current HMSMersey is a River-class offshore patrol vessel of the British Royal Navy. Named after the

River Mersey, the ship is the first to bear the name in 84 years.

She was built by Vosper Thornycroft in Southampton to serve as fishery protection units within the United

Kingdom's waters along with her two sister ships Tyne and Severn. All three were commissioned into service in 2003

to replace the five older Island-class patrol vessels. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 28 November

2003. At that time,Mersey was not expected to commence duties until February 2004.

Mersey was the last Royal Navy ship to be launched from Vosper Thornycroft at its Woolston shipyard; Jennie

Reeve, wife of Rear-Admiral Jonathon Reeve, Chief of Fleet Support, was the ship's sponsor. The first ship launched

at the yard was the Tribal-class destroyer Tartar on 25 June 1907.[2]

Mersey departing from Portsmouth Naval Base

12 November 2008

Affiliations

HMSEaglet

TSArdent Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Liverpool.

External links

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References

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[2] HMS Mersey to be final RN ship launched from Woolston (http://www.vtplc. com/Media/Pressreleases/HMSMERSEYTOBEFIN/)

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