RN Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) - River Class

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HMS Tamar and HMS Spey

Completed the 2,600 mile journey from San Diego and arrived off Hawaii this week.
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HMS TAMAR arriving in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii last week for maintenance, replenishment and and to carry out a crew change.

See - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 6015038469 - for more photos.
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Pelican wrote: Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:15 pm HMS TAMAR arriving in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii last week for maintenance, replenishment and and to carry out a crew change.

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Delivering deployed support to HMS Tamar and HMS Spey in Hawaii


Following their mission preparation by our maintenance teams at Portsmouth Naval Base for their Far East deployment, and a short visit to San Diego, HMS Tamar and HMS Spey are now at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii (as you may already know if you’ve been following their Twitter accounts).

While the vessels are alongside in Pearl Harbour, the Royal Navy will be taking the opportunity to undertake planned maintenance of the two vessels – routine overhauls, checks and minor repairs and upgrades. These routine maintenance periods are being run and managed by BAE Systems, who flew expert Project Managers out in late October to assist Ship’s Staff and local teams in maintaining the two vessels across November.

Work on the two new OPVs has progressed extremely well. Pacific Shipyards, BAE Systems’ partner in Hawaii, has gone above and beyond to assist, demonstrating both proactivity and skill. Pacific Shipyards staff have been friendly, highly technically capable, and have reacted quickly and willingly to every challenge that’s emerged. They’ve made great partners.

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Tamar and Spey remember British and American war dead at Pearl Harbor memorial


Sailors from HMS Tamar and Spey paid their respects on Remembrance Day like their shipmates around the globe – but at one of the US Navy’s most hallowed sites.
More than 40 men and women from the patrol ships honoured both Britain’s war dead and the victims of the Pearl Harbor attack on the glistening white USS Arizona Memorial.

Barely ten minutes into the attack on December 7 1941, the Arizona was torn apart when a bomb pierced her armour-plating and detonated the battleship’s forward magazine – an explosion in similar fashion to those which devastated Royal Navy battle-cruisers at Jutland and HMS Hood earlier in 1941.

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Hawaii Dive-Oh – Tamar and Spey lap-up unique adventurous training opportunity

The crews of the Royal Navy’s Pacific task group were treated to their first taste of adventurous training in the rugged terrain, incredible landscape and world-famous beaches of Hawaii.
The RN’s specialist adventurous training team – who deliver bespoke packages to ships and units around the world – made the 7,000-plus-mile journey to the central Pacific to offer the crews of HMS Tamar and Spey challenging sporting activities in a unique setting.

The two patrol ships are using Pearl Harbor as a logistics/maintenance/crew swap hub as they head from their home in Portsmouth to the western Pacific, which is their long-term theatre of operations.

Continues at - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... ii-dive-oh

More photos at - https://www.facebook.com/royalnavy/phot ... 391418205/
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Royal Navy looking for firm to support Batch 2 Offshore Patrol Vessels

The Ministry of Defence is inviting bidders to tender to provide engineering support for five Batch 2 River Class offshore patrol vessels.
According to the tender notice:

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From battleship grey to green – newest ships embrace latest tech to help the environment


The newest warships in the Royal Navy’s inventory are the greenest since the days of sail.
And the green credentials of HMS Tamar and Spey are being incorporated – and built upon – in the Navy’s next breed of submarine hunters, currently under construction on the Clyde.

Patrol ships HMS Tamar and Spey are currently making their way across the Pacific to their new theatre of operations for the next five years: the Indo-Pacific region.

As well as bringing a permanent Royal Navy presence to a part of the world key to the UK’s interests for the first time since the handover of Hong Kong, they do so with minimum impact on the environment.

Their selective catalytic reduction system works to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide – which attacks the ozone layer and is also a key component of acid rain – into the by up to 97 per cent.

By converting urea to ammonia on board, it is injected into catalysts in the exhaust system, where it breaks down harmful emissions and converts them into simple diatomic nitrogen and water.

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