HMS Ledbury (M30)

HMS Ledbury (M30)

HMS Ledbury in Portsmouth 2007

Career (UK)
Name: Operator: Ordered: Builder: Launched: Sponsored by: Commissioned: Homeport: Identification: Honours and awards: Status: HMS Ledbury Royal Navy 31 March 1977
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Vosper Thornycroft December 1979 Lady Elizabeth Berthan 11 June 1981 Portsmouth Pennant number: M30 Malta(1942) Arctic(1942-3) Sicily(1943) Salerno(1943) Adriatic(1944) Aegean(1944) Kuwait(1991) Al Faw(2003) in active service, as of 2013[3]
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General characteristics
Class & type: Displacement: Length: Beam: Draught: Propulsion: Speed: Boats & landing craft carried: Complement: Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel 750tons 60m 9.8m 2.2m 2 shaft Napier Deltic diesel, 3,540shp 15knots 2 x Gemini 43 (5 Officers, 9 Senior Ratings, 29 Junior Ratings)

Sensors and Sonar Type 2193, Radar Type 1007 processing systems:

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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 Ledbury, the third ship of the name, is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the Royal Navy. She was launched on December 1979 and commissioned on 11 June 1981, the second ship of her class. She cost 65 million at time of building, which was at the time the most expensive cost-per-metre for any class of ship built by the Royal Navy.[2] Most of this cost went into the research and development of Ledbury's glass reinforced plastic hull.[4] She is attached to the Second Mine Countermeasures Squadron, based in Portsmouth. Ledbury underwent a docking maintenance period, commencing in June 2009, to fit the new Seafox mine disposal equipment. This new equipment (replacing the French built PAP RCMDS) is a significant improvement in both mine detection and disposal technology.[citation needed]

References
[1] [2] [3] [4] http:/ / www. theyworkforyou. com/ wrans/ ?id=1981-10-27. 336. 5 http:/ / www. royalnavy. mod. uk/ operations-and-support/ surface-fleet/ mine-countermeasure/ hunt-class/ hms-ledbury/ http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ w/ index. php?title=HMS_Ledbury_(M30)& action=edit http:/ / www. royalnavy. mod. uk/ operations-and-support/ surface-fleet/ mine-countermeasure/ hunt-class/ hms-ledbury/ introduction/ introduction

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