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HMS HURSLEY – Hursley was a Second World War Type II Hunt-class escort destroyer of the British Royal Navy

. She is the only Royal Navy ship to have carried this name. Hursley is a village in Hampshire. Commissioned in 1942, she served in the Mediterranean, before being transferred to the Hellenic Navy in November 1943 and renamed Kriti. She took part in the landings in Sicily, Anzio, and southern France, and remained inContinue reading “HMS HURSLEY – Hursley was a Second World War Type II Hunt-class escort destroyer of the British Royal Navy”

HMS Scylla F71 – HMS Scylla after her Seawolf conversion in 1989

HMS IMPLACCABLE-1942? HMS Implacable sails under the Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver BC

HMS Sirius (F40) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN)

HMS Sirius (F40) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN) built by H.M. Dockyard Portsmouth, and was the penultimate RN warship to be built there for a period of forty years, until Vosper Thornycroft built HMS Clyde. Sirius was launched on 22 September 1964 and commissioned on 15 June 1966. The ship continuedContinue reading “HMS Sirius (F40) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN)”

HMS Andromeda was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy.

HMS Andromeda was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built at HM Dockyard Portsmouth. She was launched on 24 May 1967 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 2 December 1968. She took part in the Falklands War and was sold to India in 1995, for use as a training ship, beingContinue reading “HMS Andromeda was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy.”