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Royal Navy - Offshore Patrol Vessel /
OPV P 224 HMS Trent |
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Type,
class: Offshore Patrol Vessel - OPV; River class,
Batch 2 Builder: BAE Systems Naval Ships, Govan (ship) + Scotstoun (fitting out) Shipyards, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. STATUS: Awarded: August 2014 Laid down: October 7, 2015 Christened: March 13, 2018 Launched: March 20, 2018 Commissioned: August 3, 2020 IN SERVICE Homeport: HMNB Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK Namesake: River Trent, England Technical Data: see INFO > River class Offshore Patrol Vessel |
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                                      DS30M Mark 2 30mm Automated/Manual Machine Gun System  DS30M Mark 2 30mm Automated/Manual Machine Gun System  Mk.44 minigun (6-barrelled rotary machine gun)  RHIB on davit      christening ceremony - Govan, Glasgow, Scotland - March 2018  christening ceremony - Govan, Glasgow, Scotland - March 2018 |
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HMS Trent (P 224): On 6 November 2013 it was announced that the Royal Navy had signed an Agreement in Principle to build three new offshore patrol vessels, based on the River-class design, at a fixed price of £348 million including spares and support. In August 2014, BAE Systems signed the contract to build the ships on the Clyde in Scotland. The Ministry of Defence stated that the Batch 2 ships are capable of being used for constabulary duties such as "counter-terrorism, counter-piracy and anti-smuggling operations". According to BAE Systems, the vessels are designed to deploy globally, conducting anti-piracy, counter-terrorism and anti-smuggling tasks currently conducted by frigates and destroyers. Steel was cut, marking the start of construction of Trent, on 7 October 2015 at the BAE Systems Govan shipyard in Glasgow. Trent was officially named - the equivalent to a traditional slipway launch - on the south bank of the Clyde at BAE's Govan yard on 13 March 2018, completing her first sea trials in June the following year. She made her first entry into Portsmouth Harbour on 19 December 2019. She was commissioned on 3 August 2020 and deployed to the Mediterranean for NATO Operation Sea Guardian, before returning to the UK in September. The 2021 defence white paper announced that HMS Trent would be permanently based at Gibraltar as part of the Gibraltar Squadron for operations in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Gulf of Guinea. Trent arrived at Gibraltar in April 2021. Soon after her arrival, Trent deployed to the Black Sea for training with the Ukrainian and allied navies. Later in the year, the patrol ship deployed to the Gulf of Guinea on counter-piracy operations. The ship went into dry dock in Gibraltar in mid-2022 for a maintenance and upgrade period and was to have returned to active operations in October. However, a further initially undisclosed problem forced her to return to dry dock shortly thereafter. That same month, the ship's commanding officer was removed from his post over alleged inappropriate texts to a female subordinate. In December the ship again returned to dry dock for an unknown reason. source: wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Trent_(P224) |
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River Trent ... is the third-longest river in the United Kingdom. Its source is in Staffordshire on the southern edge of Biddulph Moor. It flows through and drains most of the metropolitan central and northern Midlands south and east of its source north of Stoke-on-Trent. The river is known for dramatic flooding after storms and spring snowmelt, which in past times often caused the river to change course. The river passes through Stoke-on-Trent, Stone, Rugeley, Burton upon Trent and Nottingham before joining the River Ouse at Trent Falls to form the Humber Estuary, which empties into the North Sea between Hull in Yorkshire and Immingham in Lincolnshire. The course of the river has often been described as the boundary between the Midlands and the north of England. |
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