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HMS Sherwood is the Royal Naval Reserve unit associated with Nottingham and the East Midlands.
Located in the Beechdale area, near the city centre of Nottingham, HMS Sherwood provides a venue and focus for RNR training and activity in the East Midlands.
Nottingham may seem like an unlikely setting for an outpost of the RNR, the city is over 50 miles from the coast and it is better known for its legendary longbow man than its gallant seafarers, nevertheless Reservists have been flying the White Ensign in the East Midlands for over 50 years.
The first HMS Sherwood, a destroyer transferred to the RN from the US under the Lend/Lease Agreement, working mainly as a convoy escort ship and helped the operation to sink the Bismarck.
The First Naval Reserve wireless unit is formed in Nottingham. The unit moves to its first official premises on High Pavement the following year.
After moving to 46 Carrington Street, Nottingham in 1961, the unit relocates to Chalfont Drive and is commissioned as HMS Sherwood in 1984.
Members of the ship’s company are mobilised for Op TELIC (Iraq War), for Op Herrick in Afghanistan, to support the London 2012 Olympic Games, and to Gibraltar.
HMS Sherwood relocates to Foresters House, Chilwell, forming the first Reserve Training Centre with the Army Reserve.
Nottingham-based reservists mobilised on HMS Queen Elizabeth’s first global Carrier Strike deployment and support the civil authorities’ response to the Covid pandemic.
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Commander Kathryn Jacques joined the Royal Naval Reserve in 2004 and assumed command of HMS Sherwood in November 2022.
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