![]() HMS Severn, 2012
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Name | HMS Severn |
Ordered | April 2001 |
Builder | Vosper Thornycroft |
Launched | 4 December 2002 |
Commissioned | 31 July 2003 |
Decommissioned | 27 October 2017 |
Recommissioned | 28 August 2021 |
Homeport | Portsmouth |
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Motto | Fides invicta triumphat (Latin: Faith unconquered triumphs) |
Nickname(s) | "Lucky Severn", "Magnificent Severn" |
Honours and awards | Algiers 1816, Belgian Coast 1914, Konigsberg action 1915, Norway 1940, Atlantic 1940–41, Sicily 1943, Aegean 1943 |
Status | In active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | River-class patrol vessel |
Displacement | 1,700 t (1,700 long tons)[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 | 2 × 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 × RHIB |
Troops | 20 |
Complement | 30 |
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Notes | Fit with 25-tonne crane[2] |
HMS Severn is a River-class offshore patrol vessel of the Royal Navy. Named after the River Severn, the ship is the first to bear the name in 56 years. She was built by Vosper Thornycroft in Southampton, England, to serve primarily as a fishery protection unit within the United Kingdom's waters along with her two sister ships Mersey and Tyne. All three were commissioned into service in 2003 to replace the five older Island-class patrol vessels. The ship was decommissioned in 2017, but the Government decided to recommission her as part of Brexit preparedness. She returned to service in 2020 and was recommissioned into the Royal Navy on 28 August 2021.[3]
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