HMS Enterprise

 HMS Enterprise operated for twenty years as a survey ship but the decommissioned ship is being sold to the Bangladesh Navy. 

The pictures show her at Faslane on the Clyde.

RFA Argus

RFA Argus is to be decommissioned after four decades of service.

She started life as a Italian container ship,but was requisitioned during the Falklands war in 1982.

Following conversation she entered service as an aviation training ship before taking on the role as a Primary Casualty Receiving ship.

Photographed here on the River Clyde.

RFA Proteus (K60)

 The RFA Proteus (K60) is the UK’s first dedicated Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance (MROS) ship, operated by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Formally entered into service in October 2023, it serves as a "mothership" for underwater surveillance and seabed warfare.

Seen here berthed at Fairlie Pier.

HMS Dauntless (D33)

 HMS Dauntless is the second ship of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the British Royal Navy. She is currently under the command of Commander Ben Dorrington. She was launched at Govan in January 2007, was handed over to the Royal Navy on 3 December 2009 and was formally commissioned on 3 June 2010.The Picture was taken a few hours before her launch into the Clyde.

HMS Hurworth

 HMS Hurworth Royal Navy mine hunter on the Clyde

HMS GRIMSBY M108

 HMS GRIMSBY M108 Royal Navy minehunter passing Gourock.

HMS Cumberland F85

 HMS Cumberland was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1986 at Yarrows on the Clyde, commissioned on 10 June 1989. The frigate was on station during the First Gulf War and was part of the Devonport Flotilla based at Devonport Dockyard. Cumberland was decommissioned on 23 June 2011.

HMS Somerset

 HMS Somerset is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy. She is the eleventh ship of the class to join the fleet since 1989. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd on the River Clyde, in Scotland and was launched in June 1994.

HMS Battleaxe (D118)

 Battleaxe was one of 19 Weapon-class destroyers ordered as part of the Royal Navy's 1943 War Programme. The Weapons were intended to be built in shipyards where the larger Battle class could not be built, but still mounting the heavy anti-aircraft armament and modern fire-control which war experience had shown to be necessary. As designed, the Weapons were to be armed by six 4-in guns in three twin turrets, two forward and one aft, with radar direction, with a close-in anti-aircraft armament of six 40-mm Bofors guns. Ten 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes were carried in two quintuple mounts, while up to 150 depth charges could be carried.

Battleaxe was laid down at Yarrows Scotstoun shipyard in Glasgow on 22 April 1944, and was launched on 12 June 1945. The end of the Second World War meant that most of the class were cancelled, with the remaining four ships, including Battleaxe having their armament fit revised to improve their anti-submarine capability. One of the ships' four inch mounts (in Battleaxe's case the superimposed forward B-mount, leaving one turret forward and another aft) was removed to allow the fitting of two Squid anti-submarine mortars, while the conventional depth charge armament was also removed. Battleaxe commissioned on 23 October 1947, the first of the four Weapon class to be completed

Information courtesy of Wikipedia

HMS Smiter (P272)

 HMS Smiter (P272) at the launch of HMS Daring on the Clyde in 2006.

RFA Proteus K60

 The offshore support vessel, MV Topaz Tangaroa was purchased by the Ministry of Defence in 2022 for conversion to a Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance (MROS) ship. Her primary role will be to protect underwater infrastructure.

She is seen here berthed at Fairlie pier on the Clyde.

HMS TYNE

 

HMS MERMAID

 HMS Mermaid F76 built at Yarrows Scotstoun on the Clyde, originally laid down as Black Star for Ghana but the order was cancelled in 1966.

She was eventually commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1973,decommisioned in 19737and was transferred to the Malaysian navy, renamed KD Hangtuah.

While with the Royal Navyshe was involved in an unfortunate collision with the minesweeper HMS Fittleton during a NATO exercise that resulted in the Fittleton's sinking and the deaths of a number of the RNR crew. The Mermaid was used to protect UK trawlers during one of the Cod Wars with Iceland in the 1970s over fishing rights. The frigate and the Icelandic gunboat Baldur came into close contact on the high seas.

RNMB Hebe

RNMB Hebe departing James Watt Dock Greenock.

RNNB Hebe is operated as part of the Royal Navy’s crewless mine hunting programme, Project Wilton.
 

HMS SHOREHAM

 HMS Shoreham was a Sandown-class minehunter of the British Royal Navy. She was the fifth vessel to bear the name. In 2022 she was decommissioned and was transferred to Ukraine.

Seen here passing Greenock .

HMS Raider

 HMS Raider seen here in Oban Bay.

HMS Penzance M106

 Royal Navy mine sweeper HMS Penzance heading up to Glasgow on a rainy day.