Mermaid
- 4 photo's of WW11 Sloop + 1 photo of 1960's "Mermaid".
photo 3 above courtesy of Mr. John Murray.
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Photo 4 above courtesy of Mr. Mike
Fry.
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This
ship has provided me with a bit of a "Headache" as she obviously does
not belong to this section,
and I'm not going to make a completely new one just
for her.
I am indebted however to a Mr. Keith Wren, who once served on her, for
the information he has provided below.
She was originally built on the Clyde for Ghana, but delivery
was never made due to a regime change in that country.
She languished around
the UK for several years until she was finally passed over to the RN in 1973.
Trials were then conducted to find out what changes were needed to bring her
to RN standards before she was re-fitted in Chatham;
the most important change
was probably the removal from the Galley of the "Yam" boilers
and
fitting "Deep fat fryers" in lieu - Jack prefers chips to
"Yams" !!!
She then went to Singapore as the Five Powers Defence
Agreement ship in 1974,
returning to the UK at the end of 1975. She
subsequently became involved in the so-called "Cod-war" with
Iceland.
Later she was put up for disposal and transferred to Malaysia.
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