It has been suggested that a 1920s
N3-class battleship ultimately not ordered could have been named HMS St David
HMS St David (MO7) was a converted
minesweeper launched in 1972 as the
commercial trawlerSuffolk Monarch. She was converted and commissioned into service as the tender to the South Wales Division
RNR in 1978 and was the test-bed for the Deep-Armed Team Sweep (DATS) concept, which eventually saw fruition in the River-class MSF. Following her de-commissioning, she was returned to her original owner in 1983, where she was converted into an oil rig safety/standby vessel.
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list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
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It has been suggested that a 1920s
N3-class battleship ultimately not ordered could have been named HMS St David
HMS St David (MO7) was a converted
minesweeper launched in 1972 as the
commercial trawlerSuffolk Monarch. She was converted and commissioned into service as the tender to the South Wales Division
RNR in 1978 and was the test-bed for the Deep-Armed Team Sweep (DATS) concept, which eventually saw fruition in the River-class MSF. Following her de-commissioning, she was returned to her original owner in 1983, where she was converted into an oil rig safety/standby vessel.
This article includes a
list of ships with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.