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HMS Pursuer is the training vessel for Glasgow and Strathclyde University Royal Naval Unit (URNU), located in the Glasgow University grounds.
HMS Pursuer (P273) is currently on deployment
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Glasgow & Strathclyde University Royal Naval Unit (URNU) is a fantastic opportunity for undergraduates in the Glasgow area to get out on the water, build navigation and leadership skills, and have a lot of fun along the way. Though Pursuer’s crew are mainly focused on URNU duties, they also support for Royal Navy-sponsored undergraduates right across southern Scotland. Did you know? HMS Pursuer holds the Freedom of the Town of Newhaven.
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Students build navigation and leadership skills, taking part in sports, adventurous training and exciting challenges.
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Putting our craft, kit and people through their paces so they perform to the highest standards.
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Fully fuelled and victualed, HMS Pursuer has an unsupported endurance of over 240nm at her maximum speed of 20kn. So though she is one of our smaller ships at just 20.5 meters long, she has travelled further than you might imagine, travelling as far afield as Cyprus, where she formed part of the Cyprus Squadron; and Russia, where she has visited in a Baltic summer deployment. These days, she mostly remains in UK waters, giving young sailors a fun, hands-on opportunity to learn seafaring skills and gain an insight into what a career in the Royal Navy might lead to.
The first, formerly the St George was launched in the United States on 18 July 1942, and loaned to the UK, to be returned in February 1946.
The second was the tank landing ship LST 3504, built by Vickers in Montreal and launched in 1944.
She was renamed Pursuer in 1947, and became the Ministry of Transport ship Empire Tern in 1956 before being broken up in 1969.
The current HMS Pursuer was commissioned in 1988, and was launched in Southampton and sponsored by Ballyregan Bob.
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