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.
.jpg) HMS Trumpeter, 2012
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| History | |
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| Name | HMS Trumpeter |
| Operator | Royal Navy |
| Builder | Vosper Thornycroft |
| Commissioned | 1988 |
| Identification |
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| Motto | Vox Victoriae - The Sound of Victory |
| 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, Cat C18 ACERT diesels |
| Speed | |
| Range | 550 nmi (1,020 km) |
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| Sensors and processing systems | Decca 1216 navigation radar |
| Armament | |
Operational history
editHMS Trumpeter was commissioned close to her builder's yard in Southampton, early in 1989 at HMS WESSEX the Solent Division RNR Unit based in the former Imperial Flying Boat base in Southampton Docks. As a small, well-equipped navigation training platform her role was introducing Young Officers and newly joined ratings to basic seamanship and life in a small warship whilst giving a first command opportunity to lieutenants who were working towards command of the division's main tender. This is still broadly the role of the P2000 class in all University Royal Naval Units. She then served in the Gibraltar Squadron alongside Ranger commencing 1991. With Ranger she was deployed on the Thames for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant to assist in security and partake in the pageant, then later in the same year Trumpeter assisted in the security for the 2012 London Olympics.[3]
In the early 2020s, Trumpeter, along with other Archer-class vessels, was given a more operational role as part of the reconstituted Coastal Forces Squadron. In early 2024, Trumpeter and three of her sister ships deployed to northern Norway as part of the NATO exercise "Steadfast Defender".[4]
See also
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ "Patrol Boats – Archer class". Royal Navy. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ "Archer Class P2000 (URNU)". Armed Forces.net. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Edvvc (3 June 2012). "HMS Ranger & HMS Trumpeter". Flickr. Archived from the original on 8 October 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
- ^ "Royal Navy's smallest ships take on huge challenge as they brave weeks of rough seas". ForcesNet. 5 February 2024.
External links
edit- "HMS Trumpeter". Royal Navy.
- Bristol URNU on Facebook
- "Cambridge URNU".
