HMS Trumpeter, 2012
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Trumpeter |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Builder | Vosper Thornycroft |
Commissioned | 1988 |
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Motto | Vox Victoriae - The Sound of Victory |
Status | In active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Archer-class patrol vessel |
Displacement | 54 tonnes |
Length | 20.8 m (68 ft) |
Beam | 5.8 m (19 ft) |
Draught | 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Propulsion | 2 shafts, Cat C18 ACERT diesels |
Speed | |
Range | 550 nmi (1,020 km) |
Complement |
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Sensors and processing systems | Decca 1216 navigation radar |
Armament |
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HMS Trumpeter is an Archer-class patrol vessel P2000-type patrol and training vessel of the British Royal Navy. [1] [2] Trumpeter is assigned to Cambridge University Royal Naval Unit, having previously been the training ship of the Bristol University Royal Naval Unit.
HMS Trumpeter served in the Gibraltar Squadron alongside Ranger commencing 1991. With Ranger she was deployed on the Thames for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant to assist in security and partake in the pageant, then later in the same year Trumpeter assisted in the security for the 2012 London Olympics. [3]
In the early 2020s, Trumpeter, along with other Archer-class vessels, was given a more operational role as part of the reconstituted Coastal Forces Squadron. In early 2024, Trumpeter and three of her sister ships deployed to northern Norway as part of the NATO exercise "Steadfast Defender". [4]