HMS Walney (M104)
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 HMS Walney docked at Liverpool in May 2006 |
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Walney (M104) |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Vosper Thornycroft |
| Launched: | 25 November 1991 |
| Commissioned: | 19 August 1992 |
| Homeport: | HMNB Clyde |
| Fate: | Active in service as of 2008 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Sandown class minehunter |
| Displacement: | 600 tonnes |
| 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 |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Walney.
HMS Walney (M104) is a Sandown-class minehunter of the British Royal Navy. She is the fourth of the Sandown-class minehunters, and the second ship to carry the name, which comes from the island off Barrow-in-Furness on the north-west coast of England.
She was launched on 25 November 1991 and commissioned on 19 August 1992.
HMS Walney has battle honours from the Atlantic in 1941-42 and Africa in 1942.
The ship is affiliated to the town of Barrow-in-Furness, the casualty department at Furness General Hospital and TS Quantock Sea Cadet Corps in Ashton-under-Lyne.
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