| These photographs were taken during the World Ship Society Merseyside Branch's visit to HMS Echo on Saturday January 21, 2006. HMS ECHO H87 was built at Appledore Shipyard under a subcontract from Vosper Thornycroft and launched in 2002. She has been supplied by VT under a 25 year design and maintain contract and is leased to the Royal Navy. She is the first Royal Navy ship to be fitted with a diesel-electric "Azipod" propulsion system. As well as functioning in its primary role as a Survey Vessel Hydrographic Oceanographic, the ship and her sister HMS ENTERPRISE has a secondary role as a mine countermeasures flagship. Accompanying her on her visit to Liverpool were Sandown Class mine hunters HMS RAMSEY, HMS GRIMSBY and HMS BLYTH. | 
