RNMB Hebe departing James Watt Dock Greenock.
RNNB Hebe is operated as part of the Royal Navy’s crewless mine hunting programme, Project Wilton.
RNNB Hebe is operated as part of the Royal Navy’s crewless mine hunting programme, Project Wilton.
Seen here passing Greenock .
In the back ground you can see work taking place for the shed of the new the frigate factory.
HMS Mermaid was a Modified Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Mermaid saw service as a convoy escort during the Second World War, taking part in the sinking of two German submarines while escorting Arctic convoys to and from the Soviet Union.
Mermaid was sold to Federal Republic of Germany in 1959, where she was renamed Scharnhorst and used as a training ship.
On 6 June 1944, the ship supported the invasion force during D-Day by providing smoke screens and setting up fuel lines.[
In February 1948, she returned to the UK and decommissioned on arrival. She was sold for scrap in 1963.
Information courtesy of Wikipedia.