HMS Cromer (M103)
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| Name: | HMS Cromer (M103) |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Vosper Thornycroft |
| Launched: | 6 October 1990 |
| Commissioned: | 7 April 1992 |
| Decommissioned: | 2001 |
| Fate: | Designated as training ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Sandown class minehunter |
| Displacement: | 484 tons full |
| Length: | 52.5 m |
| Beam: | 10.9 m |
| Draught: | 2.3 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts Voith-Schneider propulsors diesel-electric drive Paxman Valenta diesels, 1,500 shp |
| Speed: | 13 knots diesel, 6.5 knots electric |
| Complement: | 34 (7 officers, 27 ratings) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Type 1007 navigation radar Type 2093 variable-depth mine hunting sonar |
| Armament: | 1 × Oerlikon 30 mm KCB gun on DS-30B mount 2 × 7.62 mm L7 GPMG machine guns Wallop Defence Systems Barricade Mk. III countermeasure launchers Irvin Aerospace Replica Decoy launchers |
| Notes: | Mine counter measures equipment: 2 × ECA PAP 104 Mk.5 remotely controlled submarines (ROV) ECA mine disposal system Clearance divers |
HMS Cromer was a Sandown class minehunter commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1992. She was named after the North Norfolk seaside town of the same name.
HMS Cromer visited Dundee on November 6th-9th 1998 (for a Dundee navy day and Armistice Day commemorations) when she was accompanied by various warships from European countries including: Norwegian minesweeper N 52 KNM Vidar, Norwegian minesweeper KNM Maloy, Dutch minesweeper M 860 Hr.Ms. Schiedam, Belgian minesweeper M 917 BNS Crocus, Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose (F236) and German minesweeper F45 FGS Volkingen.
She was decommissioned in 2001 before being refitted for use as a training ship at the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. In keeping with tradition, for this role the ship has been renamed Hindostan. As she is not a commissioned ship she is not prefixed "HMS".
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