Sandown Class Countermeasures Ships
HMS Ramsey M110
HMS Ramsey M110 is a Sandown Class Mine Counter Measures Vessel (MCMV) and is normally based at Faslane, and we see her as she passes Western Kings Battery, Stonehouse as she leaves Devonport Naval Base on 13th March 2017 in glorious spring sunshine. HMS Ramsey was built by Vosper Thornycroft and commissioned in September 2000, and like all her sister minehunters, is fitted with a glass reinforced plastic hull for her minehunting role and is equipped with Paxman Valenta 6RP200E diesels engines which generate 1523shp. Interestingly, Paxman Valenta engines were originally fitted to BR's High Speed Train fleet when they were introduced in 1976. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q815M5S8a2M
HMS Sandown M101
One from the archives! 21 years ago, HMS Sandown M101, a Royal Navy 'Sandown' Class Minehunter, is seen during a visit to Kyle of Lochalsh on 17th September 1997. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_2L7evyyAo