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River-class Minesweeper
The River class was a class of minesweeper built for the British Royal Navy in the 1980s, designated Fleet Minesweepers (MSF). Design The Rivers were built with a traditional steel hull to a design based on a commercial offshore support vessel. The class was designed to be operated as deep sea team sweepers, to combat the threat posed to submarines by Soviet deep-water buoyant moored mines codenamed "Cluster Bay". The River-class MSF was equipped with the Wire Sweep Mark 9 (WS 9) which was capable of performing Extra Deep Armed Team Sweeping (EDATS). Operating in pairs (or a number of pairs in formation), they towed a sweep between the two ships that followed the profile of the bottom and cut the mooring wires of the mines; these released mines would then be destroyed on the surface with gunfire. The WS 9 was able to be used for "mechanical" sweeping in this manner or "influence" sweeping whereby a transducer was towed through the water generating noise, both acoustic and ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Orwell (M2011) Bay Of Biscay 1990
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Orwell'', after the River Orwell in Suffolk, England * was a wooden screw gunboat launched in 1866 and sold in 1890. * was a torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1899, purchased in 1901 and sold in 1920. * was an O and P-class destroyer, O-class destroyer launched in 1942, converted to a Type 16 frigate in 1952 and sold in 1965. * was a launched in 1985. She was sold to Guyana in 2001 and renamed ''Essequibo''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Orwell, Hms Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rivers Of The United Kingdom
For details of rivers of the United Kingdom, see * List of rivers of England * List of rivers of Scotland * List of rivers of Wales * Northern Ireland: see List of rivers of Ireland and Rivers of Ireland * Longest rivers of the United Kingdom Overseas territories * Rivers of the Falkland Islands * List of rivers of Montserrat This is a list of rivers of Montserrat. Rivers are listed in clockwise order, starting at the north end of the island. * Farm River ** Lee River * Paradise River (formerly a tributary of the Farm river, course altered by pyroclastic flows) *Tar ... {{United Kingdom topics * Rivers he:בריטניה הגדולה#נהרות ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BNS Shaibal
BNS ''Shaibal'' is a River class minesweeper of the Bangladeshi Navy. She is serving Bangladeshi Navy from 1995. History This ship served in Royal Navy as ''HMS Helford (M2006)''. She was commissioned on 7 June 1985. She was assigned to the Northern Ireland Division of Royal Navy Reserve. She was withdrawn from service in 1993. In 1995, she was sold to Bangladesh. Career ''BNS Shaibal'' was commissioned in Bangladesh Navy on 27 April 1995. She is currently being used as a patrol ship. In March 1997, she was equipped with hydro-graphic survey equipments to serve as a survey vessel although mine countermeasure capability was retained. Armament The ship carries one Bofors 40 mm Mark III gun which can be used in both anti-surface and anti-air role. She also carries two L44A1 7.62 mm general purpose machine guns. See also *List of active ships of the Bangladesh Navy *BNS Shapla *BNS Shaikat *BNS Surovi BNS ''Surovi'' is a River class minesweeper of the Bangladeshi Navy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BNS Surovi
BNS ''Surovi'' is a River class minesweeper of the Bangladeshi Navy, commissioned in 1995. History This ship served in Royal Navy as ''HMS Dovey (M2005)''. She was commissioned on 30 March 1985. She was assigned to the Clyde Division of Royal Navy Reserve. She was withdrawn from service in 1993. In 1995, she was sold to Bangladesh. Career ''BNS Surovi'' was commissioned in Bangladesh Navy on 27 April 1995. She is currently being used as a patrol ship. Armament The ship carries one Bofors 40 mm Mark III gun which can be used in both anti-surface and anti-air role. She also carries two L44A1 7.62 mm general purpose machine guns. See also *List of active ships of the Bangladesh Navy *BNS Shapla *BNS Shaikat *BNS Shaibal BNS ''Shaibal'' is a River class minesweeper of the Bangladeshi Navy. She is serving Bangladeshi Navy from 1995. History This ship served in Royal Navy as ''HMS Helford (M2006)''. She was commissioned on 7 June 1985. She was assigned to the No ... R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BNS Shaikat
BNS ''Shaikat'' is a River class minesweeper of the Bangladeshi Navy. She is serving Bangladeshi Navy from 1995. History This ship served in Royal Navy as ''HMS Carron (M2004)''. She was commissioned on 30 September 1984. She was assigned to the Severn Division of Royal Navy Reserve. She was withdrawn from service in 1993. In 1995, she was sold to Bangladesh. Career ''BNS Shaikat'' was commissioned in Bangladesh Navy on 27 April 1995. She is currently being used as a patrol ship. Armament The ship carries one Bofors 40 mm Mark III gun which can be used in both anti-surface and anti-air role. She also carries two L44A1 7.62 mm general purpose machine guns. See also *List of active ships of the Bangladesh Navy *BNS Shapla *BNS Surovi *BNS Shaibal BNS ''Shaibal'' is a River class minesweeper of the Bangladeshi Navy. She is serving Bangladeshi Navy from 1995. History This ship served in Royal Navy as ''HMS Helford (M2006)''. She was commissioned on 7 June 1985. She was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BNS Shapla
BNS ''Shapla'' is a River class minesweeper of the Bangladeshi Navy. She is serving Bangladeshi Navy from 1995. History This ship served in Royal Navy as ''HMS Waveney (M2003)''. She was commissioned on 12 July 1984. She was assigned to the South Wales Division of Royal Navy Reserve. She was withdrawn from service in 1993. In 1995, she was sold to Bangladesh. Career ''BNS Shapla'' was commissioned in Bangladesh Navy on 27 April 1995. She is currently being used as a patrol ship Armament The ship carries one Bofors 40 mm Mark III gun which can be used in both anti-surface and anti-air role. She also carries two L44A1 7.62 mm general purpose machine guns. See also *List of active ships of the Bangladesh Navy *BNS Shaikat *BNS Surovi *BNS Shaibal BNS ''Shaibal'' is a River class minesweeper of the Bangladeshi Navy. She is serving Bangladeshi Navy from 1995. History This ship served in Royal Navy as ''HMS Helford (M2006)''. She was commissioned on 7 June 1985. She was as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-European language family. Bangladesh forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of India in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Ulster Constabulary
The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)Richard Doherty, ''The Thin Green Line – The History of the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC'', pp. 5, 17, 27, 93, 134, 271; Pen & Sword Books; following the partition of Ireland. At its peak the force had around 8,500 officers, with a further 4,500 who were members of the RUC Reserve. The RUC policed Northern Ireland from the aftermath of the Irish War of Independence until after the turn of the 21st century, and played a major role in the Troubles between the 1960s and the 1990s. Due to the threat from the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who saw the RUC as enforcing British rule, the force was heavily armed and militarised. Officers routinely carried submachine guns and assault rifles, travelled in armoured vehicles, and were based in heavily-fortified police stations.Weitzer, Ronald. ''Policin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurkhas, and 28,330 volunteer reserve personnel. The modern British Army traces back to 1707, with antecedents in the English Army and Scots Army that were created during the Restoration in 1660. The term ''British Army'' was adopted in 1707 after the Acts of Union between England and Scotland. Members of the British Army swear allegiance to the monarch as their commander-in-chief, but the Bill of Rights of 1689 and Claim of Right Act 1689 require parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a peacetime standing army. Therefore, Parliament approves the army by passing an Armed Forces Act at least once every five years. The army is administered by the Ministry of Defence and commanded by the Chief of the General Staff. The Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMNB Portsmouth
His Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport). Portsmouth Naval Base is part of the city of Portsmouth; it is located on the eastern shore of Portsmouth Harbour, north of the Solent and the Isle of Wight. Until the early 1970s, it was officially known as Portsmouth Royal Dockyard (or HM Dockyard, Portsmouth); thereafter the term 'Naval Base' gained currency, acknowledging a greater focus on personnel and support elements alongside the traditional emphasis on building, repairing and maintaining ships. In 1984 Portsmouth's Royal Dockyard function was downgraded and it was formally renamed the 'Fleet Maintenance and Repair Organisation' (FMRO). The FMRO was privatized in 1998, and for a time (from 2002 to 2014), shipbuilding, in the form of Shipbuilding#Modern shipbuilding manufacturing techniques, block construction, returned. Around 2000, the designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Naval Reserve
The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) is one of the two volunteer reserve forces of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. Together with the Royal Marines Reserve, they form the Maritime Reserve. The present RNR was formed by merging the original Royal Naval Reserve, created in 1859, and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR), created in 1903. The Royal Naval Reserve has seen action in World War I, World War II, the Iraq War, and War in Afghanistan. History Establishment The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) has its origins in the Register of Seamen, established in 1835 to identify men for naval service in the event of war, although just 400 volunteered for duty in the Crimean War in 1854 out of 250,000 on the Register. This led to a Royal Commission on Manning the Navy in 1858, which in turn led to the Naval Reserve Act of 1859. This established the RNR as a reserve of professional seamen from the British Merchant Navy and fishing fleets, who could be called upon during times of war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosyth Dockyard
Rosyth Dockyard is a large naval dockyard on the Firth of Forth at Rosyth, Fife, Scotland, owned by Babcock Marine, which formerly undertook refitting of Royal Navy surface vessels and submarines. Before its privatisation in the 1990s it was formerly the Royal Naval Dockyard Rosyth. Its primary role now is the dismantling of decommissioned nuclear submarines. It is also the integration site for the Royal Navy's newest aircraft carriers, the as well as the Type 31 Frigate. History Construction of the dockyard by civil engineers Easton, Gibb & Son commenced in 1909. At the time, the Royal Navy was strengthening its presence along the eastern seaboard of Great Britain due to a naval arms race with Germany. First World War * In 1903 approval was given with an estimated cost of £3 million for "works" and £250,000 for machinery spread over 10 years. The site consisted of of land, of foreshore, and the main basin would be . This was intended to be large enough for 11 battles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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