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Fleet Role:
Landing Craft Maintenance
Type: Victory (8580 dt)
Completion Date: July 1945
Builder: BDD/VDD, Vancouver, BC
History: 1956: Commenced conversion to Escort Maintenance ship;
1960: Operational base ship at Hong Kong;
1965: Reserve status at Portsmouth.
Fate : Sold February 1974, broken up 1979
| Name : HMS Berry Head Laid Down : 15th June 1944 Launched : 21st October 1944 Completed : 7th June 1945 Type : Repair Ship Class : Beachy Head Builder : Burrard, Vancouver Country : UK Pennants : F18, B357 BPF, A191 Fate : Sold for scrap 19th March 1990. |
Maintenance Escort Vessel. Built as Grain Carrier, but became redundant with the end of WWII. Placed in Reserve 1947-1950. Had modernisation & refit 1960-1963. |
HMS Berry Head pictured laid up in Portsmouth Harbour on 5th August 1989
1945 / 7300t disp.
Built by Burrard Dry Dock Co., North Vancouver (224)
Repair ship operated by the Royal Navy
Sold for scrapping in 1990
1945 / 7300t disp.
Built by Burrard Dry Dock Co., North Vancouver (224)
Repair ship operated by the Royal Navy
Sold for scrapping in 1990
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I think she would be the same class as HMS Berryhead which was in Singapore in 69 - Took her 3 months to sail from UK to Singapore via South Africa at 15 kts max
ReplyDeleteSome pics of Berry Head have now been posted as well. I was in Singapore '68, 70 and 71 on HMNZS Otago and HMNZS Taranaki
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