HMS Tyne (P281)
exercise in 2011
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History | |
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Name | HMS Tyne |
Ordered | April 2001 |
Builder | Vosper Thornycroft |
Launched | 1 July 2002 |
Commissioned | 4 July 2003 |
Homeport | Portsmouth |
Identification |
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Status | In active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | River-class patrol vessel |
Displacement | 1,700 tonnes[1] |
Length | 79.5 m (260 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 13.5 m (44 ft 3 in) |
Draught | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
Installed power | 4,125 kW (5,532 hp) at 1,000 rpm |
Propulsion | Two Ruston 12RK 270 diesel engines |
Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) |
Endurance | 21 days |
Boats & landing craft carried | 2 × rigid inflatable boats |
Troops | 20 |
Complement | 30 |
Armament | |
Notes | Fit with 25-tonne crane[2] |
HMS Tyne is a
Tyne is the sixth Royal Navy ship to carry the name and was featured in the first episode of the BBC series Empire of the Seas, "How the Navy Forged the Modern World, Heart of Oak", presented by Dan Snow.
Construction
The first of her class, Tyne was built by
The first three River-class ships Tyne, Severn and Mersey were the first ever privately funded vessels received by the Royal Navy on charter.[3][5] They were chartered for five years, after which the Ministry of Defence could either purchase them outright or return them to VT.[5]
Operational history
Tyne made her first operational fishery protection patrol between January and February 2003.[6] In January 2004, having been on fishery protection duties, she helped coordinate a search and rescue following the capsizing of French fishing trawler Bugaled Breizh off the coast of Cornwall.[7]
In September 2012, the Royal Navy purchased Tyne and her sister ships Severn and Mersey, having previously operated them on lease.[8] They had a remaining service life of 11 years.[9]
Aside from her day-to-day fishery protection duties, Tyne has occasionally been called upon to undertake escort roles in the UK Area of Interest. Two such examples occurred in the autumn of 2016 when she was twice assigned to escort Russian warships through the English Channel.[10]
In March 2017, it was announced that Tyne would be manned by personnel usually assigned to Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessels to allow her crew to transfer to the Batch 2 River-class HMS Forth in build in Glasgow.[11]
Decommissioning and reactivation
In March 2018, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Defence
Post-reactivation
Despite plans to station Tyne on her affiliated river, the ship remained base ported in Portsmouth as of February 2020.[17] Between 1 January 2014 and 30 September 2019, she had spent a total of 1,081 days at sea.[18] In December, she was tasked with shadowing the Russian Navy Smolnyy-class training ship Perekop through the English Channel.[19]
In June 2021, Tyne, along with
Affiliations
Her affiliations included North Tyneside Council, St Catherines Primary School, Hadrian Special Needs Primary School, TS Caledonia (Peterhead Sea Cadets unit), TS Tyne (Newburn Sea Cadets unit), and the Worshipful Company of Butchers.
References
- ^ "Offshore Patrol Vessels". BAE Systems. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ "River Class". Naval Technology. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ a b "VT Launches New Fishery Protection Ship". Maritime Journal. 1 July 2002. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ "Navy News". issuu.com. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ a b "UK Report: VT Halmatic Takes Charge". MarineLink. 2 April 2003. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ "Fishing Patrols Defence written question – answered on 3rd July 2002". TheyWorkForYou. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ "Bugaled Briezh Defence written question – answered on 28th January 2004". TheyWorkForYou. 28 January 2004. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ "Royal Navy: Ships". TheyWorkForYou. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ "Patrol Craft". TheyWorkForYou. 11 October 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ "HMS Tyne escorts two Russian warships through Channel". Royal Navy. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ "Mine hunting crews go fishing to help new-generation patrol ships enter service". Royal Navy. 31 March 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ Guto Bebb, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Defence (16 March 2018). "Ministry of Defence: Public Expenditure: Written question - 132371". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons.
- ^ a b "HMS Tyne reactivated due to issues with replacement ship". UK Defence Journal. 29 July 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ "HMS Tyne returns to service after being paid off in May". Save The Royal Navy. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ "MoD lifts axe on three Royal Navy patrol ships to boost UK fishery protection". Southern Daily Echo. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ "Batch I River Class OPVs extended in service until 2028". Navy Lookout. 20 October 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
- ^ "Patrol Craft". TheyWorkForYou. 4 February 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ "Navy: Fisheries". TheyWorkForYou. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ "British warship shadows Russian navy vessel in the English Channel". Sky News. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
- Independent.co.uk. 10 June 2021.
External links
- "HMS Tyne". Royal Navy.