During her stay in Malta in the 1950s she was moored on the east side of Msida creek. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.[7] She left Malta in 1960.
She arrived in Singapore in mid-1966 to relieve HMS Medway (former landing craft tank HMS LCT 1109) as depot ship of the 7th Submarine Squadron. She left Singapore to return to the United Kingdom on 31 March 1971.[9]
forth, a187, other, ships, with, same, name, forth, forth, pennant, number, later, a187, submarine, depot, ship, history, united, kingdom, namehms, forth, builderjohn, brown, company, clydebank, scotland, laid, down30, june, 1937, launched11, august, 1938, com. For other ships with the same name see HMS Forth HMS Forth pennant number F04 later A187 was a submarine depot ship History United Kingdom NameHMS Forth BuilderJohn Brown amp Company Clydebank Scotland 1 Laid down30 June 1937 1 Launched11 August 1938 1 Commissioned14 May 1939 1 Decommissioned1 January 1979 2 RenamedHMS Defiance 15 February 1972 21 April 1978 3 FateSold for scrapping 25 July 1985 1 General characteristics Class and typeMaidstone class submarine depot ship 1 Displacement8 900 long tons 9 043 t Length497 ft 151 m Beam73 ft 22 m Speed17 knots 31 km h 20 mph Complement1 167 men Armament8 4 5 in 110 mm DP guns 4 2 8 2 pounder AA guns 2 4 Forth was completed in 1939 She served at bases in Scotland including Holy Loch on the Clyde and at Halifax in Canada during the Second World War 4 During the war Forth was adopted by Stirlingshire as part of Warship Week The plaque from this adoption is held by the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth 5 6 During her stay in Malta in the 1950s she was moored on the east side of Msida creek In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 7 She left Malta in 1960 She was modified to support the Royal Navy s nuclear powered submarines at H M Dockyard Chatham between 1962 and 1966 8 She arrived in Singapore in mid 1966 to relieve HMS Medway former landing craft tank HMS LCT 1109 as depot ship of the 7th Submarine Squadron She left Singapore to return to the United Kingdom on 31 March 1971 9 In 1968 HMS Forth transported the first hovercraft a small two or three seater to Australia citation needed References edit a b c d e f HMS Forth F 04 U boat net Gudmundur Helgason Retrieved 22 April 2009 HMS Forth Naval History Flixco Retrieved 22 April 2009 Royal Naval Torpedo School HMS Defiance The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History Plymouthdata 24 November 2003 Archived from the original on 26 February 2009 Retrieved 12 February 2015 HMS Forth clydemaritime co uk Retrieved 7 March 2018 Warship Weeks Adopting Naval Vessels in World War Two Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard 2011 Archived from the original on 7 February 2012 Retrieved 1 May 2013 HMS Forth Plaque Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth 2010 Archived from the original on 10 April 2012 Retrieved 1 May 2013 Souvenir Programme Coronation Review of the Fleet Spithead 15th June 1953 HMSO Gale and Polden Lenton H T 1966 Warships of the British and Commonwealth Navies London Ian Allan HMS Forth uboat net Retrieved 1 December 2015 External links edit nbsp Media related to HMS Forth A187 at Wikimedia Commons Depot Ships of the Royal Navy nbsp This article about a specific naval ship or boat of the United Kingdom is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title HMS Forth A187 amp oldid 1092268031, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
