HMS Severn (P282)

HMS Severn in Germany, 2006
Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Severn
Operator:	Royal Navy
Ordered:	April 2001
Builder:	Vosper Thornycroft
Launched:	4 December 2002
Commissioned:	31 July 2003
Identification:	Pennant number: P282
Status:	in active service, as of 2015
General characteristics
Class and type:	River-class patrol vessel
Displacement:	1,700 tonnes[1]
Length:	79.5 metres
Beam:	13.6 metres
Draught:	3.8 metres
Installed power:	4,125 kW (5,532 hp) at 1,000 rpm
Propulsion:	2 × Ruston 12RK 270 diesel engines
Speed:	20 kn (37 km/h)
Range:	7,800 nautical miles (14,400 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Boats and landing craft carried:	2 × rigid inflatable boats
Complement:	30 (accommodation for up to 50)
Armament:	1 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 2 × General purpose machine guns

The ninth and current HMS Severn is a River-class offshore patrol vessel of the British Royal Navy. Named after the River Severn, the ship is the first to bear the name in 56 years.

She was built by Vosper Thornycroft in Southampton to serve as fishery protection units within the United Kingdom's waters along with her two sister ships Mersey and Tyne. All three were commissioned into service in 2003 to replace the five older Island-class patrol vessels.

Severn was affiliated with the city of Newport in September 2003 and awarded the freedom of the city in June 2006.^[2]

Severn in Bordeaux, France

In October 2014 it was announced that HMS Severn would be the first River Class OPV to deploy overseas to take up the Atlantic Patrol Tasking (North), a task traditionally assigned to a frigate or destroyer.^[3]

References

External links

• Royal Navy HMS Severn (royalnavy.mod.uk)
• Additional pictures of HMS Severn including her visit to Dartmouth, Devon on 24 July 2010
• Media related to HMS Severn (P282) at Wikimedia Commons

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