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15:30 GMT - 22 May 2013
Atlantic, Caribbean & USA
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HMS Ranger
HMS Ranger is a P2000 Archer Class Patrol Vessel tendered to Sussex University Royal Naval Unit (URNU). She served for 13 years in the Gibraltar Squadron before returning to the UK in 2004 to be allocated to the Sussex URNU. Now forming part of the 1st Patrol Boat Squadron (1PBS) HMS Ranger provides practical seamanship and navigation training to undergraduates from the Universities of Sussex and Brighton.
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HMS Ranger
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HMS Ranger
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HMS Ranger's summer deployment
The URNU operates from a shore headquarters on the Falmer campus of the University of Sussex.
The Officer-in-Charge is a full time Royal Navy Officer, who is also Commanding Officer of HMS Ranger, and is assisted by the Unit Coxswain (a Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer), a part time civilian secretary and by four Training Officers who are all Royal Naval Reserve Officers.
Sussex URNU holds a weekly "drill" evening (on a Thursday) at the shore headquarters, spends weekends at sea and longer deployments away during the vacations when the students undergo training and receiving instruction whilst undertaking practical exercises in leadership, navigation, seamanship, maritime operations, meteorology and communications.
Opportunities also exist to gain Royal Yachting Association theory and practical seamanship qualifications (up to the RYA Powerboat Yachtmaster), and a City and Guilds award in Leadership.
Other lectures aim to develop understanding of the UK's national requirement for naval forces and the role of such forces in sustaining the national interest and in worldwide peacekeeping.
COMMANDING OFFICER
Stuart Fletcher
- RANK:
- Lieutenant
- JOINED:
- 2000
- SPECIALISATION:
- Warfare
- PREVIOUS UNITS:
- HMS Gloucester, Shoreham
Military experience
Deployments to the Mediterranean, Falkland Islands and North and South America in support of British interests overseas.
OPERATIONS
University Training
CURRENT STATUS: active
To provide high-quality sea training experiences to undergraduates from universities, developing seamanship, teambuilding and leadership skills in a maritime environment. These ships also support the Fleet in a range of tasking around the UK and European waters, showing the White Ensign in places that larger vessels cannot reach.
UNIT DIARY
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A P2000 Baltic Summer11/09/12
Over 11 weeks whilst the UK was been preparing for the advent of the London 2012 Olympics a Task Group of P2000s comprising HMS Example, Explorer, Ranger and Trumpeter was tasked with providing maritime training to students from not just Northumbrian, Yorkshire, Sussex and Cambridge Universities Royal Naval Units but also from those units providing support to the London 2012 Olympics.
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Sussex URNU New Entry Weekend 24/11/11
This year’s visit to the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth was very tiring but the experience was incredible and taught us first years a lot about the Royal Navy.
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Adventurous Training13/10/11
Adventurous training opportunities are snapped up by URNU students, and the chance to go to the Naval Outdoor Centre Germany (NOCG) was not passed up this summer.
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ABOUT THE UNIT
KEY STATISTICS
- Pennant
P293
- Displacement
54tonnes
- Complement
5personnel
- Length
20.8Metres
- Beam
5.8metres
- Draught
1.8metres
- Top Speed
22knots
- Range (Nautical)
550nautical miles
TAKE A LOOK
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Sussex URNU take on the Crowborough Challenge
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Sussex URNU take on the Crowborough Challenge
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Sussex URNU take on the Crowborough Challenge
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HMS Ranger's summer deployment
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HMS Ranger's summer deployment
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Sussex URNU onboard RFA Mounts Bay
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Sussex URNU onboard RFA Mounts Bay
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Sussex URNU onboard RFA Mounts Bay
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HMS Ranger Students at the Naval Outdoor Centre Germany
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HMS Ranger Students at the Naval Outdoor Centre Germany
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HMS Ranger Students at the Naval Outdoor Centre Germany
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Sussex URNU’s Sailing Solent Saunter
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Sussex URNU’s Sailing Solent Saunter
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URNU Annual Flying Camp – Mid Dilan Joshi RNR
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URNU Annual Flying Camp – Mid Dilan Joshi RNR
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Sussex URNU Heritage Weekend
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Sussex URNU New Entry Weekend – BRNC Dartmouth
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Sussex URNU New Entry Weekend – BRNC Dartmouth
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