HMS Severn
(asked on 3rd September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department undertook prior to recommissioning HMS Severn.
This question was answered on 11th September 2020
It was announced in November 2018 that HMS SEVERN would be retained by the Royal Navy (RN) along with two other Batch 1 Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV), HMS TYNE and HMS MERSEY. The vessels perform a range of duties within home waters in support of homeland security, fishing protection and training. These versatile vessels provide the RN with excellent capabilities in UK territorial waters allowing larger warships to be deployed more regularly abroad.