&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Shoreham_deployed_on_Op_KIPION_MOD_45167667.jpg) Shoreham off Bahrain in 2021
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Shoreham |
| Builder | Vosper Thornycroft |
| Launched | 9 April 2001 |
| Commissioned | 20 July 2002 |
| Decommissioned | October 2022 |
| Homeport | HMNB Clyde |
| Identification |
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| Status | Decommissioned, transferred to Ukraine as Cherkasy |
| Badge | &sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Shoreham_badge.svg){kind=icon} |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Sandown-class minehunter |
| Displacement | 600 t (590 long tons)[1] |
| Length | 52.5 m (172 ft 3 in) |
| Beam | 10.9 m (35 ft 9 in) |
| Draught | 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in) |
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| Speed | 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement | 34 (accommodation for up to 40) |
| Sensors and processing systems |
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HMS Shoreham was a Sandown-class minehunter of the British Royal Navy. She was the fifth vessel to bear the name. From 2018 to 2021, Shoreham was deployed at UKNSF Bahrain together with three other mine countermeasures ships as part of 9 Mine Countermeasures Squadron[2] on Operation Kipion. In 2022 she was decommissioned and was transferred to Ukraine.
- ^ "Sandown Class Mine Countermeasures Vessels - Specifications". GlobalSecurity.org. 11 July 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ "RFA Cardigan Bay's winter in the Gulf". Royal Navy. 29 January 2020. Retrieved 23 April 2020.