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Tuesday 9 December 2014

British mine countermeasures vessel HMS Brocklesby (M33) 1982-


IJ, Amsterdam, Netherlands 4 February 2009

Of the Hunt-class. Launched at the shipyard of Vosper Thornycroft on 12 January 1982, sponsored by viscountess Trenchard, completed on 25 October and commissioned on 3 February 1983. With a displacement of 830 short tons/740 long tons/750 tons are her dimensions 60 x 9,8 x 2,2 metres or 196’10” x 32’2” x 7’3”. Speed 17 knots. Her crew numbers 46 men. Her armament consists of 1-cm gun, 2 mini guns and 2 machineguns.