HMS ''Walney'' (M104) was a of the British
Royal Navy. She was the fourth of the ''Sandown''-class minehunters, and the second ship to carry the name, which comes from
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Barrow-in-Furness in
Cumbria on the north-west coast of England.
Construction and design
HMS ''Walney'' was one of four ''Sandown''-class minehunters ordered from
Vosper Thornycroft on 27 July 1987.
[Baker 1998, p. 947.] She was laid down at Vosper Thoneycroft's
Woolston, Southampton shipyard in May 1990, launched on 25 November 1991 and commissioned on 20 February 1993.
[Saunders 2002, p. 780.]
Operational history
On 15 May 2006, HMS ''Walney'' and discovered a
World War II bomb
A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the Exothermic process, exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Detonations inflict damage principally through ground- and atmosphere-t ...
whilst conducting a
survey of the
River Mersey.
It was announced on 16 December 2009 that ''Walney'' would be
decommissioned sometime in 2010. She was decommissioned in a ceremony on 15 October 2010 at her homeport,
HMNB Clyde. ''Walney'' called in at her affiliated town of
Barrow-in-Furness on her way to her final port of call, Portsmouth Naval Base where she remains laid up in 3 Basin. In 2014 the ship was listed for sale via the Disposal Services Authority.
Affiliates
*
Barrow-in-Furness
* The casualty department at
Furness General Hospital
Furness General Hospital (FGH) is a hospital located in the Hawcoat area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. It is managed by the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The hospital, which replaced four local hosp ...
* TS ''Quantock'',
Sea Cadet Corps
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in
Ashton-under-Lyne
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Sandown-class minehunters
Ships built in Southampton
1991 ships