HMS Ledbury on Operation Kipion, 2020
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History | |
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Name | HMS Ledbury |
Ordered | 31 March 1977[1] |
Builder | Vosper Thornycroft |
Launched | December 1979 |
Sponsored by | Lady Elizabeth Berthan[2] |
Commissioned | 11 June 1981 |
Homeport | HMS Jufair, Bahrain |
Identification |
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Motto | Mors Mina ("Death to Mines") |
Honours and awards |
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Status | Ship in active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel |
Displacement | 750 t (740 long tons; 830 short tons)[3] |
Length | 60 m (196 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 9.8 m (32 ft 2 in) |
Draught | 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) |
Propulsion | 2 × Caterpillar C32, 2 × FPP – 757 kW (1,015 hp) |
Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried | 2 × MIB Diving Support Boats |
Complement | 45 (5 officers & 39 ratings) |
Sensors and processing systems | Sonar Type 2193 |
Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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HMS Ledbury, the second ship of the name, is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 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.[5]