HMS Pembroke (M107)
1998 Sandown-class minehunter of the Royal Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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HMS Pembroke was a Sandown-class minehunter of the Royal Navy. She was the second ship launched of the second batch of the class, which had several improvements over the first five ships built. The ship was posted for three years to the Persian Gulf between 2009 and 2012. Pembroke has since been deployed in international exercises and in historic ordnance detection in home waters. Pembroke was the first of the Royal Navy’s Mine Countermeasures Vessels to be fitted with the Oceanographic Reconnaissance Combat Architecture combat system to replace the previous NAUTIS combat system in early 2020.
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Name | HMS Pembroke |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Builder | Vosper Thornycroft |
Launched | 12 December 1997 |
Commissioned | 6 October 1998 |
Homeport | HMNB Clyde |
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Status | Decommissioned |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sandown-class minehunter |
Displacement | 600 t (590 long tons; 660 short tons)[1] |
Length | 52.5 m (172 ft 3 in) |
Beam | 10.9 m (35 ft 9 in) |
Draught | 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) |
Propulsion | Paxman Valenta 6RP200E diesels 1523 shp, diesel-electric drive, Voith Schneider Propellers, Schottel bow thrusters |
Speed | 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 34 (accommodation for up to 40) |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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In July 2023, it was announced that HMS Pembroke was to be decommissioned, as part of the Royal Navy's plans to replace all mine countermeasures vessels with autonomous unmanned vessels. A decommissioning service and Freedom of Pembroke parade was held on 23 July 2023.[3][4] The ship was still in commission as of September 2023 but was reportedly scheduled to be transferred to the Romanian Navy in 2024. [5][6] She had reportedly decommissioned from the Royal Navy as of January 2024.[7] The ship is to be renamed to M271 Căpitan Constantin Dumitrescu after it will enter Romanian service.[8]