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        HMS Clyde
        P257

        HMS Clyde

        HMS Clyde patrols the territorial seas and monitors the airspace around the Falkland Islands whilst conducting routine visits and reassurance to the many small settlements found throughout the islands. As part of her deterrence role she also regularly visits other British Overseas Territories in the area such as South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

        HMS Clyde

        At just over 2,000 tonnes displacement, she may not be the biggest ship in the Navy, but this is certainly made up for in capability.

        As a modified version of the UK-based River Class vessels, she features a large flight deck for a ship of her size as well as an aviation refueling capability. This allows her to support a wide range of aviation operations, including search and rescue.

        Two seaboats are also permanently carried, a Pacific 22 RIB, which can reach speeds of over 40mph, and a Rigid Raider.

        The Rigid Raider allows high speed insertion of troops directly on to shore, which is frequently practised during exercises with the Roulement Infantry Company, based in the Falklands.

        COMMANDING OFFICER

        Marcus Hember

        Marcus Hember
        RANK:
        Lieutenant Commander
        JOINED:
        1996
        SPECIALISATION:
        Warfare
        PREVIOUS UNITS:
        HMS Illustrious, HMS Severn
        Military experience

        Educated at Monkton Combe and St Laurence School, Marcus Hember joined Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1996 as a Naval College Entrant Seaman Officer. Fleet time in Illustrious and Lindisfarne was followed by an initial appointment to Edinburgh. He then joined the Offshore Patrol Vessel Alderney as Navigating and Operations Officer, completing a varied two years generating from refit and patrolling UK waters with the Fishery Protection Squadron prior to FNO course in 2001.

        A very busy appointment as the Navigating Officer of Richmond followed, including a Western Atlantic/AUTEC deployment and, in 2003, a Gulf deployment which culminated in providing Naval Fire Support to the Royal Marine amphibious assault of the Iraqi Al Faw peninsular.

        Leaving Richmond shortly afterwards Hember joined the Joint Services Command and Staff College as Military Assistant to the Commandant, at the time an army Major General.

        Awarded the Black prize during subsequent Initial Staff training, Hember then completed Principal Warfare Officers course, and was appointed to Cornwall in 2006 as the PWO(CEW).

        Operational Sea Training, and a demanding return to the Gulf followed. As Operations Officer, Hember then co-ordinated a major unplanned docking and subsequent generation to operate as the Pre Landing Force platform for a large NATO amphibious exercise off Norway.

        Joining the R2 Strike Carrier Illustrious as the Force Warfare Officer (CEW) in late 2009, Hember became the N5 warfare planner, also charged with leadership of task-group C4ISTAR issues.

        In Feb 2010 Hember joined the Fleet Operational Policy staff at the Northwood Maritime Operations Centre, where he worked at the interface between Navy Command Headquarters and the Ministry of Defence, the Permanent Joint Headquarters, and Other Government Departments.

        Selected for Sea Command in December 2010, he assumed command of HMS Severn, an Offshore Patrol Vessel of the Fishery Protection Squadron, in June 2011.

        After a demanding 18 months patrolling UK and North European waters in support of the Marine Management Organisation, and working alongside the UK Border Agency and Maritime Coastguard Agency HMS Severn was awarded the 2012 Surface Flotilla Efficiency Prize.


        OPERATIONS

        Operation Falklands Islands Patrol Vessel

        CURRENT STATUS: active
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        MISSION SUMMARY

        HMS Clyde is tasked with patrolling the Falkland Islands whilst also monitoring the airspace that covers the wider operational area. She routinely visits the many small settlements that feature around the Islands. With her work around the Falkland Islands forming part of a Joint Operational Environment, Clyde regularly exercises with both the Army and RAF in order to maximise our combined capabilities.

        UNIT DIARY

        Surface Fleet
        HMS Clyde
        • New CO continues relations with Falkland Island Defence Force (FIDF)03/08/12

          On Friday 3rd of August the new Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Mark Anderson, met with the Officer Commanding the FIDF, Major Pete Biggs to discuss and develop the close relationship already enjoyed between the two forces.

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        ABOUT THE UNIT

        KEY STATISTICS


        Pennant

        P257

        Displacement

        1,850tonnes

        Complement

        38personnel

        Length

        79.8Metres

        Beam

        13.6metres

        Draught

        3.8metres

        Top Speed

        20knots

        Range (Nautical)

        5,500nautical miles

        Launch Date

        14/06/06

        Commissioned date

        11/12/06

        11,000hp Power Output Equivalent To

        90 average family cars

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        HMS Clyde HISTORY

        TRACK THE HISTORY OF SHIPS NAMED HMS Clyde
        • The First Clyde

          The first HMS Clyde was a 38-gun frigate of the ‘Artois/Apollo’ Class, built at Chatham Dockyard, and launched in March 1796. She carried a complement of 270 officers, ratings and Marines. Although her career was short (she was broken up in 1805), it was very eventful and she saw action on several occasions. When mutiny broke out at the Nore in the Thames Estuary in 1797, the Clyde’s Captain was able to persuade his crew to return to their duty – one of only two ships to break the mutineers’ blockade and escape into the Medway.

        • The Second Clyde

          The second HMS Clyde is the only example since the 1740s of a ‘Rebuild’, a new ship built to the same design (and name) as one recently scrapped, whilst the third was a ‘Leda’ Class 38-gun frigate, the largest class of sailing frigates ever built, and was launched at Woolwich Dockyard in October 1828. In 1904 the composite screw sloop HMS Wild Swan became the fourth HMS Clyde in her role as the Aberdeen Royal Naval Reserve’s second drill ship.

        • Ship History

          The most recent HMS Clyde was a ‘Thames’ Class submarine built at Barrow and launched in March 1934. As built she measured 1805 tons standard displacement and was 345 ft long. From 1936 she served in the Mediterranean until the outbreak of war in 1939 when she patrolled the South Atlantic and home waters. In June 1940 she was operating off Norway when she torpedoed the German battlecruiser GNEISENAU off Trondheim, blowing a hole in her bows ‘big enough to allow a picket boat to sail through’.

        • Battle Honours

          Norway 1940

        • Battle Honours

          Mediterranean 1941

        • Battle Honours

          Malta Convoys 1942

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