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Minehunter HMS Grimsby (M108) maintains freedom of navigation on the high seas by keeping international shipping lanes open.
Travelled between refits
Over the past 5 years
Date she was launched by Lady Candice Blackham
As a minehunter, HMS Grimsby safety detects and destroying dangers under the water. A committed team of 38 use specialist skills and equipment including:
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HMS Grimsby (M108) is a Mine Counter Measures Vessel (MCMV). She maintains freedom of navigation on the high seas – vital to the UK international trade – by keeping international shipping lanes open.
She has a crew of 38, the majority of whom have done multiple deployments to the Middle East and Europe to work alongside NATO Allies.
Over the past five years she has had seven different crews and visited over 18 different countries, working tirelessly to maintains freedom of navigation on the high seas by keeping international shipping lanes open.
The first incarnation, a sloop, launched in July 1933. At the outbreak of World War Two she was on the China Station, but was recalled to the UK to see extensive service.
Unfortunately on 25 May 1941 following heavy and sustained attack from enemy aircraft she sank 40 miles north east of Tobruk.
The current ship was launched by Lady Candice Blackham on 10 August 1998, and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 25 September 1999.
After five years, 18 countries and 43,000 miles, HMS Grimsby enjoyed a full refurb, and was fitted with the most advanced sonar in the fleet.
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