 HMS Cromer, after decommissioning, at Britannia Royal Naval College | |
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| Name: | Cromer |
| Namesake: | Cromer, Norfolk |
| Builder: | Vosper Thornycroft |
| Launched: | 6 October 1990 |
| Commissioned: | 7 April 1992 |
| Decommissioned: | 2001 |
| Renamed: | Hindostan in 2001 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: M103 |
| Status: | Training ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Sandown-class minehunter |
| Displacement: | 484 tons full |
| Length: | 52.5 m (172 ft 3 in) |
| Beam: | 10.9 m (35 ft 9 in) |
| Draught: | 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) |
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| Complement: | 34 (7 officers, 27 ratings) |
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HMS Cromer is a former Sandown-class minehunter commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1992. She was named after the North Norfolk seaside town of the same name.[1]
HMS Cromer visited Dundee on 6–9 November 1998 (for a Dundee navy day and Armistice Day commemorations) when she was accompanied by various warships from European countries including: Norwegian minelayer/command ship HNoMS Vidar, Norwegian minesweeper HNoMS Måløy, Dutch minehunter HNLMS Schiedam, Belgian minehunter Crocus, Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose and German minesweeper Völkingen.[2]
She was decommissioned in 2001 before being refitted for use as a training ship at the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. In keeping with tradition, for this role the ship has been renamed Hindostan.[3] As she is not a commissioned ship she is not prefixed "HMS". In June 2023, she was towed to Portsmouth reportedly for temporary berthing while jetties at Britannia Royal Naval College were refurbished.[4][5]
References[]
- ↑ "Navy News". June 1992. https://issuu.com/navynews/docs/199206/2.
- ↑ Vessels visiting the Port of Dundee
- ↑ "Future of minehunting sails into Dartmouth". Royal Navy. 1 May 2019. https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2019/may/01/190501-future-of-minehunting-sails-into-dartmouth.
- ↑ NavyLookout (26 June 2023). "@NavyLookout ex-HMS Cromer arrived in Portsmouth last week - used as Static Training Vessel Hindostan at @DartmouthBRNC". https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1673226075814363137.
- ↑ NavyLookout (23 June 2023). "Apache departs from @HMSQNLZ yesterday as ex-HMS Cromer towed into the basin - presumably to await disposal.". https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1672154449836494850.
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