HMS Trumpeter (P294)

HMS Trumpeter, 2012
Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Trumpeter
Operator:	Royal Navy
Builder:	Vosper Thornycroft
Commissioned:	1988
Identification:	Pennant number: P294
Status:	in active service, as of 2015
General characteristics
Class and type:	Archer-class patrol vessel
Displacement:	54 tonnes[1]
Length:	20.8 m
Beam:	5.8 m
Draught:	1.8 m
Propulsion:	2 shafts, Rolls Royce M800T diesels, 1,590 bhp
Speed:	14 kn (26 km/h) 45 kn (83 km/h) (Hull design, but limited due to engine fitted)
Range:	550 nmi (1,020 km)
Complement:	18 (training)[N 1] 12 (operational)
Sensors and processing systems:	Decca 1216 navigation radar
Armament:	1 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon on fo'c'sle ("for but not with") 3 × General purpose machine guns[N 2]

HMS Trumpeter is an Archer-class patrol vessel P2000-type patrol and training vessel of the British Royal Navy. Trumpeter is assigned to Cambridge University Royal Naval Unit, having previously been the training ship of the Bristol University Royal Naval Unit.

Operational history

She served in the Gibraltar Squadron alongside Ranger commencing 1991 under commanding officer Lieutenant Richard Morris. With Ranger she was deployed on the Thames for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant to assist in security and partake in the pageant. She also assisted in security for the 2012 London Olympics.^[2]

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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMS Trumpeter (P294).

• Royal Navy HMS Trumpeter (royalnavy.mod.uk)
• Bristol URNU (bristolurnu.org)
• Cambridge URNU (srcf.ucam.org)

See also

• Curriers' Company

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