HMS Iveston
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Iveston |
| Namesake: | English village of Iveston |
| Builder: | Philip and Son |
| Launched: | 29 June 1955 |
| Commissioned: | 24 September 1979 |
| Decommissioned: | 1992 |
| Out of service: | Transferred as the SCC training ship T.S. Iveston - broken up at Erith in March 2015 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Ton-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 360 tons |
| Length: | 152 ft (46 m) |
| Beam: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 Paxman Deltic 18A-7A diesel engines |
| Speed: | 15 kn (28 km/h) |
| Range: | 2,500 nmi (4,600 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
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HMS Iveston was a Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy, formerly of the Second Mine Countermeasures Squadron. She has been decommissioned and now operates as the training ship T.S. Iveston. Iveston was built by Philip and Son in Dartmouth and launched on 29 June 1955. In 1965, Iveston was commanded by Mark Ruddle, a former submariner. 24 years later Christopher Ameye was appointed in command until 1992 when Iveston was decommissioned. On 19 July 1968 HMS Iveston joined "Reclaim" at a salvage area, and was withdrawn the next day. After her decommissioning, HMS Iveston became the Sea Cadet training ship T.S. Iveston, in 1993.
Philip and Son in Dartmouth built Iveston. Her hull was a double mahogany hull upon an aluminium frame with 360 tons displacement. She was given two Paxman Deltic 18A-7A diesel engines that can power her to a top speed of 15 knots (28 km/h) and a range of 2,500 nautical miles (4,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h). She can carry a crew of 38 including five officers. She is armed with a Bofors 40 mm/60 Mk 3 dual-purpose gun; two Oerlikon 20 mm guns and three FN 7.62 mm machine-guns. Once complete she was launched on 29 June 1955.
According to the National Maritime Museum, there was a mutiny on board HMS Iveston at Ullapool in 1970. This was the last mutiny in the Royal Navy. Five of the crew were dismissed and jailed for their drunken protest which involved singing Irish songs outside the officers’ wardroom.
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