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Postby brianh » Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:46 pm

The elderly coastal minelayer HMS Plover at the Quayside om 24 August 1967.

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Re: PLOVER

Postby Hornbeam » Sun Aug 30, 2020 9:39 am

She certainly was an "Old Lady" and the last of the Triple Expansions x2 the R.N. had as far as I aware, based at Vernon after Scotland she laid out the Practice Mines for the RNR in their intership how many Mines can you catch competitions.
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Re: PLOVER

Postby Dennis Maccoy » Sun Aug 30, 2020 7:25 pm

Plover at the Fish Quay in March 1966.

Plover, March 1966 (1) - Copy_edited-1.jpg

Plover, March 1966 (2) - Copy_edited-1.jpg
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Re: PLOVER

Postby Hornbeam » Sun Aug 30, 2020 7:43 pm

Many thanks for the further photographs especially of the business end of the Plover Dennis.
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Re: PLOVER

Postby northeast » Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:25 am

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Re: PLOVER

Postby Hornbeam » Mon Aug 31, 2020 9:01 am

G.M. N.E, Seems to be a bit of confusion on Wiki with build and order dates. She was certainly good value for the Taxpayers. Mining is still the most effective conventional way of shutting a Port down, or a shed load of Fertiliser.
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Re: PLOVER

Postby Hornbeam » Mon Aug 31, 2020 10:38 am

Thinking about the old Plover and Vernon, what was the name of the former German vessel that was alongside Vernon, any help appreciated.
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Re: PLOVER

Postby Dennis Maccoy » Mon Aug 31, 2020 12:15 pm

Was that Sarepta?
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Re: PLOVER

Postby Hornbeam » Mon Aug 31, 2020 3:11 pm

G.A. Dennis, after some further searching I found to her to be HMS Deepwater the former German War Prize 'Walter Holtzapfel' an interesting vessel in that her twin Diesel engines had been fitted with a Hydrogen Peroxide injection system to improve her speed, she was sailed to G.B.with her German Crew running the engines which they tried to sabotage apparently.
The RN tried to run her using the Hydrogen Peroxide system but then disconnected it as being far too dangerous and carried on using her without it until she went alongside Vernon as a dead ship for Divers to practice their skills on. I was looking for her under Minelayers as she had rail tracks welded to her Aft Deck when I saw her like the Plover but although she is down as a Seaplane Tender I think she was actually a Torpedo Recovery Vessel for the German Navy.
Thank You for your suggestion.
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Re: PLOVER

Postby northeast » Tue Sep 01, 2020 6:31 am

From Wikipedia

"RNAS Portland was an air station of the Royal Navy from 1917.

The site was first built in 1917 as HMS Sarepta within the confines of Portland Harbour as a seaplane base; the aircraft operating from the base's slipways.

In 1959 it became RNAS Portland (HMS Osprey) "
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