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HMS Ledbury - M30


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HMS Ledbury - M30

HMS Ledbury (M30)seen here during a courtesy visit to Newcastle Upon Tyne (North East England). Photographed on 20th May 2007 at Spillars Wharf.

According to the Royal Navy web site @
http://www.royal-nav...001001007007006
"HMS Ledbury is the second of the Hunt Class Mine Counter Measures Vessels to be built. The ship was launched by her Sponsor, Lady Elizabeth Berthan in December 1979 and was commissioned into Naval Service on 11th June 1981. She cost £65 Million at time of building, the most expensive cost for a class of ship per metre ever built by the Royal Navy.

The Hunt Class is unique in the Royal Navy for its dual functions of 'Sweeping' and 'Hunting' on the same platform and can be rolled from one function to the other in minutes."

Length 60 Meters
Displacement:675 tonnes
Complement:5 Officers, 9 Senior Rates, 29 Junior Rates