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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. |