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HMS SPEY P234

            Photograph above:
HMS SPEY P234
is captured departing HM Naval Base, Portsmouth for working 
up  exercises after arriving at her new home ready for future deployment.

Photograph Copyright: Digital Expression UK (2021)

OVERVIEW:
HMS Spey is a Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol vessel of the Royal Navy. Named after the River Spey in Scotland, she is the eighth Royal Navy ship to be named Spey and is the fifth Batch 2 River-class vessel to commission.

Construction
On 6 November 2013 it was announced that the Royal Navy had signed an Agreement in Principle to build three new offshore patrol vessels, based on the River-class design, at a fixed price of £348 million including spares and support. In August 2014, BAE Systems signed the contract to build the ships on the Clyde in Scotland. The Ministry of Defence stated that the Batch 2 ships are capable of being used for constabulary duties such as "counter-terrorism, counter-piracy and anti-smuggling operations". According to BAE Systems, the vessels are designed to deploy globally, conducting anti-piracy, counter-terrorism and anti-smuggling tasks currently conducted by frigates and destroyers. A £287m order, for two further ships, Tamar and Spey, and support for all five Batch 2 ships, was announced on 8 December 2016.

Batch 2 ships such as Spey include some 29 modifications and enhancements over the Amazonas-class corvette built by BAE Systems for the Brazilian Navy. Tamar and Spey have further modifications such as carbon dioxide reducing catalytic converters.

Spey was formally named on 3 October 2019. She began contractor sea trials in September 2020, and after they were completed, left the Clyde on 28 October for the delivery voyage to Portsmouth. On 7 January 2021, HMS Spey was commissioned into the Royal Navy in Portsmouth.
   

Taken in: UK / England / Southsea / Old Portsmouth (show map)

Taken on: May 14, 2021

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