HMS Cattistock (M31)

HMS Cattistock (M31)

Career (UK)
Name: Operator: Ordered: Builder: Launched: Commissioned: Homeport: Identification: Honours and awards: Status: HMS Cattistock Royal Navy 29 January 1979 Vosper Thornycroft 22 January 1981 5 March 1982 HMNB Portsmouth, Hampshire Pennant number: M31 North Sea: 1941-45, Atlantic: 1942-1944, Normandy: 1944, Northern Persian Gulf: 1990-91

in active service, as of 2013[1]

General characteristics
Class & type: Displacement: Length: Beam: Draught: Propulsion: Speed: Complement: Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel 750tons 60m 9.8m 2.2m 2 shaft Napier Deltic diesel, 3,540shp 17knots 45 (6 officers & 39 ratings)

Sensors and Sonar Type 2193 processing systems:

HMS Cattistock (M31)

Armament:

30mm automatic small calibre gun 2 Mk44 minigun 3 7.62mm general purpose machine guns SeaFox mine disposal system Diver-placed explosive charges

Mine counter measures equipment:

HMS Cattistock, the third ship of this name, is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1981 and commissioned on 5 March 1982, the third ship of her class. She was mentioned in the media in December 2002 after colliding with a jetty as she was leaving her homeport of HMNB Portsmouth in late November. She was left with a 2ft hole in her side, although no crew were hurt in the collision. It was the third such collision that year, as the submarine Trafalgar ran aground off the Isle of Skye earlier in November and the destroyer Nottingham hit rocks off the coast of Australia in July.[2] In 2012 she assisted in the location of two Royal Air Force Panavia Tornados which had crashed in the Moray Firth.[3]

Affiliates
Cattistock, Dorset Cattistock Hunt Trinity School CCF Lilliput Sea Scouts

References
[1] http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ w/ index. php?title=HMS_Cattistock_(M31)& action=edit

External links
RoyalNavy.mod.uk HMS Cattistock Page (http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/ surface-fleet/mine-countermeasure/hunt-class/hms-cattistock/)

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