HMS Trumpeter (P294)
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Name: | HMS Trumpeter |
Operator: | Royal Navy |
Builder: | Vosper Thornycroft |
Commissioned: | 1988 |
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Status: | in active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Archer-class patrol vessel |
Displacement: | 54 tonnes |
Length: | 20.8 m (68 ft) |
Beam: | 5.8 m (19 ft) |
Draught: | 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Propulsion: | 2 shafts, Rolls Royce M800T diesels, 1,590 bhp |
Speed: | |
Range: | 550 nmi (1,020 km) |
Complement: |
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Sensors and processing systems: | Decca 1216 navigation radar |
Armament: |
HMS Trumpeter is an Archer-class patrol vessel P2000-type patrol and training vessel of the British Royal Navy.[1][2] Trumpeter is assigned to Cambridge University Royal Naval Unit, having previously been the training ship of the Bristol University Royal Naval Unit.
Operational history
She served in the Gibraltar Squadron alongside Ranger commencing 1991 under commanding officer Lieutenant Richard Morris. With Ranger she was deployed on the Thames for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant to assist in security and partake in the pageant. She also assisted in security for the 2012 London Olympics.[3]
See also
References
References
- ↑ Royal Navy - Patrol Boats - Archer class, royalnavy.mod.uk, Retrieved 4 June 2018
- ↑ "archer class". armed forces.net.
- ↑ "HMS Ranger & HMS Trumpeter | Flickr - Photo Sharing!". Flickr. 2012-06-03. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
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