HMS Sabre
Three vessels of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Sabre after the weapon:
- HMS Sabre (1918) was an S-class destroyer launched on 23 September 1918 and sold for breaking up in November 1945.
- HMS Sabre (P275) was a 102-ton patrol boat launched on 21 April 1970 and was one of three boats making up the Fast Training Boat Squadron at Portland Harbour. The boat was sold in 1983.[1]
- HMS Sabre (P285) is a 16-metre Scimitar-class fast patrol boat. It was commissioned into the Gibraltar squadron on 31 January 2003 and is used for police, customs and rescue purposes.[2] It had previously been used in Northern Ireland since 1993 as MV Grey Wolf[3][4] and was based in Lough Neagh where it was manned by Royal Marines.[5]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "HMS Sabre". Battleships-Cruisers. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
- ^ "Gibraltar Squadron - Introduction and History". Royal Navy website. Retrieved 23 November 2008., which gives the former name of HMS Sabre (P285) as Greywolf
- ^ "HMS Sabre". Royal Navy website. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
- ^ Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. gives the former name of HMS Sabre as HMS Grey Fox, in contradiction to the MOD website which says that MV Grey Fox was the former name of HMS Scimitar
- ^ "The sharp side of the Rock". Navy News. Royal Navy. April 2007. p. 12. Retrieved 23 November 2008.
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