Minehunter HMS Brocklesby leaves Portsmouth for sea trials after three-year refit
After a major three-year refit, HMS Brocklesby has finally departed Portsmouth for sea trials.
The Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel has undergone a full modernisation and technological update, which included embarking autonomous and remote/offboard minehunting systems.
She is one of the Royal Navy's oldest ships in service, having been launched on 12 January 1982 and commissioned into service on 3 February 1983 at HMS Vernon.
As a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel, her primary purpose is to seek out and neutralise enemy mines using sonar technology and a combination of highly trained mine clearance divers and the Seafox unmanned underwater vehicle.
One of Brocklesby's biggest battle honours was in 2003, when she was among the first coalition ships into Umm Qasr during operations in Iraq and cleared a mined channel into the port.
Prior to her recent refit, HMS Brocklesby was in the Gulf for three years on Operation Kipion.
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