![]() HMS Trent entering Portsmouth for the first time
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Name | Trent |
Ordered | August 2014 |
Builder | BAE Systems Naval Ships |
Laid down | 7 October 2015 (Steel cut) |
Launched | 20 March 2018 |
Sponsored by | Mrs Pamela Potts |
Christened | 13 March 2018 |
Commissioned | 3 August 2020 |
Homeport | Portsmouth[1] (forward deployed to Gibraltar) |
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Motto | Laureata per labore
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Status | In active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Batch 2 River-class patrol vessel |
Displacement | 2,000 tonnes |
Length | 90.5 m (296 ft 11 in)[2] |
Beam | 13 m (42 ft 8 in) |
Draught | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) |
Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) |
Endurance | 35 days |
Boats & landing craft carried | Two rigid inflatable boats |
Troops | up to 50 |
Complement | 34–45[3][4][5] |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | Merlin-capable flight deck; small UAVs may be embarked |
Notes | Fit with 16-tonne crane |
HMS Trent is a Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol vessel, named after the River Trent. This is the sixth Royal Navy ship named Trent. She is the third Batch 2 River-class vessel to be commissioned and is forward deployed to Gibraltar for operations in the Mediterranean and Gulf of Guinea.