Medway is the second of five Batch 2 River Class vessels ordered for the Royal Navy, she arrived in Portsmouth on the 17th of June 2019. She is the second River-class offshore patrol vessel in the naval fleet. The ship served on the China Station before the Second World War and was transferred to Egypt in early 1940. Now, Medway is the second of a brand new bunch of offshore patrol vessels. HMS Medway will now undergo a final period of planned maintenance and improvements. HMS Medway’s Commanding Officer, Commander Ben Power, said: “It has taken an extraordinary effort to get Medway ready to deploy. She was one of the "little ships of Dunkirk", making a record 7 trips and rescuing 7000 men in the evacuation of Dunkirk. Meet the latest addition to the Naval family: HMS Medway, the second of five new patrol vessels for the fleet. A number of ships were renamed HMS Medway II whilst serving as depot ships for the establishment, including: HMS Talbot, previously HMS M29 was Medway II between 1944 and 1945. HMS Medway is the second of the new River class vessels to depart for this type of patrol task; her sister ship HMS Forth arrived in the Falkland Islands earlier this month to take up station there. I am very much into local naval history, living just a mile away from Chatham Dockyard in Chatham/Gillingham, Kent. It will sail to its future home of Portsmouth next year. For now, the crew of about 40 - two thirds the full strength of 58 - are concentrating on readying the ship for the return to sea in three months' time. Get instant insight into what people are talking about now. James Hirst 19th September 2019 at 5:20pm. Along with her sister vessels, she was designed for counter-piracy, anti-smuggling, fishery protection, border patrol, counter terrorism and maritime defence duties. The PS Medway Queen is a paddle driven steam ship, the only mobile estuary paddle steamer left in the United Kingdom. The name continues an association between the Royal Navy, the River Medway, the Medway towns and the Chatham Historic Dockyard with its rich naval heritage and is the tenth vessel to bear the name since the 1690s. In May/June 1940 HMS Medway Queen made seven return trips across the channel to rescue the troops from the beaches and the East Mole of Dunkirk under the command of Lt. A. T. Cook RNR. We went on board to speak to her officers and look around the newest ship in the fleet. HMS Medway: Royal Navy's Newest Warship Welcomed Into Senior Service. After three years in the Caribbean, RFA Mounts Bay is to be replaced by HMS Medway. “Medway now enters the next phase of force generation which will see her develop into a warship and made ready for sustained patrol operations in the new year.” Rear Admiral Jim Higham, senior officer responsible for the Batch 2 River Class programme, said: “It is a great pleasure to welcome HMS Medway on her first arrival into Portsmouth. HMS Medway (shore establishment), were submarine base shore establishments in the Mediterranean, listed between 1942 and 1946. Get more of what you love Follow more accounts to get instant updates about topics you care about. now she's off to the Caribbean, where she's expected to take part in counterparty counter drug operations out there. She is in the process of working up before commissioning into the RN in September. However, very quickly after the news article was published it was very quickly withdra "HMS Medway Queen - Memories of Dunkirk" is scheduled to go on sale at Ramsgate in May when Medway Queen is there for the anniversary commemorations. HMS Medway (F 25) was the first large submarine depot ship designed and built for the Royal Navy, commissioned at Devonport in July 1929. The five new 2,000t OPVs are set to replace the Royal Navy’s current River-class patrol ships, including HMS Tyne, HMS Mersey, HMS Severn and HMS Clyde. PS/HMS Medway Queen J48 One of the "Little Ships of Dunkirk" 1st to arrive, last to leave. Medway Queen was there in 1940 and again in 2015 for the 75th anniversary. Make way for Medway as second new patrol ship is named 20 October 2017. Now we plan to be there again for the 80 th anniversary commemorations. She was the subject of a £1.8 million National Lottery Heritage Memorial Fund grant to restore her hull. The PS/HMS Medway Queen played a vital role during the war, evacuating troops from Dunkirk, minesweeper on the Dover straight,… The PS Medway Queen is a paddle driven steam ship, the only mobile estuary paddle steamer left in the United Kingdom.She was one of the "little ships of Dunkirk", making a record 7 trips and rescuing 7000 men in the evacuation of Dunkirk. HMS Medway (P223), the second of the Royal Navy’s new River-class offshore patrol vessels (OPV), has been officially welcomed into the navy with her commissioning ceremony at Chatham Dockyard on September 19, 2019. The Portsmouth-based OPV sailed to the docks in Kent on the River Medway – the waterway she’s named after – for the […] Growing the fleet. The Royal Navy's newest warship has been added to the fleet at a ceremony on the river she was named after. The first steel was cut on HMS Medway in June 2015, at a ceremony in Glasgow.

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