DUMBARTON CASTLE HMS 1982

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DUMBARTON CASTLE HMS 1982

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:17 pm

Built as an offshore patrol vessel under yard 986 by the yard of Hall Russell at Aberdeen for the Royal Navy.
08 August 1980 ordered.
03 June 1981 launched under the name of HMS DUMBARTON CASTLE, one of the Castle Class, one sister the HMS LEEDS CASTLE.
Displacement 1.427 ton full load. Dim. 81 x 11.5 x 3.6m.
Powered by 2 Ruston 12 RKC diesels, 5.640 hp, twin shafts, speed 19.5 knots.
Range 10.000 mile by a speed of 12 knots.
Armament: 1 – 30mm, 2 – 7.62mm guns.
Accommodation for 25 mariners and 45 crew.
26 March 1982 commissioned.

These two vessels were started as a private venture, and her design included an ability to lay mines.
She carried two Avon Sea Rider high speed craft, used for boarding vessels.
After commissioned and the outbreak of the Falkland War, she together with her sister was sent immediately south.
On arrival at Ascension was she briefly used as replacement of RMS ST HELENA which has sailed with the Task Force to the Falkland Islands.

After the war was she used in rotation with her sister as guard ship in the Falkland waters, when not at the Falklands she was based at Portsmouth, and used for fishery and off-shore oil production platform protection.

In 2001 converted to a command role, and at that time based at Portsmouth.
After her sister was decommissioned was she used as patrol vessel in the Falkland waters and South Georgia.

Summer 2007 will she be replaced by a new off-shore patrol vessel.

Ascension 2007 40p sg?, scott?

Source: Jane’s Warships of the World 2004, and some web-sites.
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Re: DUMBARTON CASTLE HMS 1982

Post by aukepalmhof » Wed Aug 03, 2011 8:23 pm

2008 Decommissioned.
April 2010 sold to Bangladesh, and she left Portsmouth on 21 May 2010 towed by the tug MULTRATUG 7 destined for the A&P Tyne yard for a major regeneration project.

By the stamp issued by Ascension, the Ascension Post gives the following information:
HMS Dumbarton Castle’s role in the Falklands’ War was as a dispatch ship, carrying critical personnel and supplies between Ascension and the Falkland Islands. One of only two Castle Class patrol ships, her flight deck was large enough to have a Sea King land on her without a problem, although in this image, she is receiving underslung stores from XZ593 in an operation known as a vertical replenishment or VERTREP. She sailed directly from the builder’s yard to join the Task Force and arrived in the Falklands on 23 June 1982.
Her association with the Falklands did not however end in 1982 as after the war she and her sister ship HMS Leeds Castle became the Falkland Islands Patrol Vessels, with one operating in waters around the Falkland Islands for the next 25 years.

Ascension 2007 sg?, scott?. 2011 90p sg 1105, scott?

Source: Jane’s Warships of the World 2004, and some web-sites.
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Re: DUMBARTON CASTLE HMS 1982

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Oct 13, 2017 2:00 am

2010 Sold to the Bangladesh Navy and renamed BIJOY.

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