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A total of nine were built for the Royal Navy (RN), four Batch 1 and five Batch 2. One Batch 1 (HMS Clyde), which was the Falklands guard ship, was decommissioned and transferred at the end of its lease to the Royal Bahrain Naval Force. The three remaining Batch 1 ships perform fisheries security and border patrol tasks in UK waters.
[13] [14] On 22 November 2018, Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson further clarified that Tyne and her two Batch 1 sister ships would be retained in service and forward-operated from their affiliated rivers. [15] However, the idea of forward basing the Batch 1s was reportedly later abandoned. The ships are now to be retained in service until ...
HMS Mersey is a River-class offshore patrol vessel of the British Royal Navy. Named after the River Mersey, she is the fifth RN vessel to carry the name and the first to be named Mersey in 84 years. Various tenders were renamed Mersey [3] during their service with Mersey Division Royal Naval Reserve (HMS Eaglet) between the early 1950s and late ...
HMS Severn is a River-class offshore patrol vessel of the Royal Navy.Named after the River Severn, the ship is the first to bear the name in 56 years.She was built by Vosper Thornycroft in Southampton, England, to serve primarily as a fishery protection unit within the United Kingdom's waters along with her two sister ships Mersey and Tyne.
HMS Clyde (pennant number P257) was an offshore patrol vessel and was the tenth Royal Navy vessel to carry the name. She was launched on 14 June 2006 in Portsmouth Naval Base by VT Group shipbuilders in Portsmouth and is the fourth vessel of the River class, with a displacement of 2,000 tonnes and a 30 mm Oerlikon KCB gun in place of the 20 mm gun fitted to Tyne River-class ships.
This is a list of patrol boats of the Royal Navy. Active. Archer-class patrol and training craft Archer; Biter; Smiter; Pursuer; Blazer; Dasher; Puncher; Charger; Ranger;
HMS Tamar is a Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol vessel of the Royal Navy.Named after the River Tamar in England, she is the fourth Batch 2 River-class vessel to be built [14] and is forward deployed long-term to the Indo-Pacific region with her sister ship HMS Spey.
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.