Royal Navy patrol vessel HMS Spey recently embarked on a Fleet Operational Standards and Training (FOST) operational training and assurance period, showcasing its combat readiness through a series of intensive drills.
This training, which aims to ensure the ship’s operational capability, included live gunnery exercises, among other critical scenarios, according to a press release.
The 10-day training package for HMS Spey encompassed a range of exercises from gunnery to damage control, ensuring the vessel’s readiness for future missions.
HMS SPEY recently undertook a FOST operational training and assurance period, which involved a range of serials from gunnery to damage control.
The 10-day package assured the Ship’s operational capability ensuring our readiness for tasking! ⚓️ pic.twitter.com/tXhtYwkNDT
— HMS Spey (@HMS_Spey) July 27, 2024
The training also involved collaboration with land and air units and featured participation from NATO and other international partners.
HMS Spey’s recent operational history highlights its crucial role in enforcing international sanctions and maintaining maritime security.
Last month, the patrol vessel conducted a surveillance mission off the coast of North Korea to support United Nations sanctions. This operation involved monitoring and preventing illicit maritime activities, such as ship-to-ship transfers with North Korean-flagged vessels, which are prohibited by United Nations Security Council resolutions.
The Japanese government expressed its support for these patrols, stating, “Japan welcomes these activities from the viewpoint of ensuring effective implementation of the relevant UNSCRs in solidarity with the international community toward the realisation of North Korea’s dismantlement of all weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles of all ranges in a complete, verifiable, and irreversible manner.”
HMS Spey, the fifth and final second-generation River Class Offshore Patrol Vessel built for the Royal Navy, is currently deployed in the Indo-Pacific region. Alongside HMS Tamar, HMS Spey underscores the UK’s commitment to maintaining a persistent maritime presence.
The vessel engages in various operations, including anti-smuggling, fishery protection, border patrol, and counter-terrorism activities, supporting Britain’s regional partners in South East Asia and the Indian Ocean. These operations and training exercises, say the Royal Navy, highlight the vital role of HMS Spey in ensuring maritime security and enforcing international law while maintaining combat readiness through rigorous training programmes.
HMS Spey is a patrol boat with a pop gun on the front
did it successfully scare the seagulls away with the mighty pop gun?
I doubt it. Seagulls in the UK, at least, seem to have no fear.
not fro a river that’s for sure
It’s a patrol ship, it doesn’t need more armament. Adding weapons creates complexity which increases costs and potentially reduces the numbers in service
it’s not a patrol
ship, it’s A useless experience, just like just about every other shipbuilding design that the RN has been involved in for decades. now the navy prefers to throw it’s budget in drones and other such rubbish
in Cornwall there are wanted signs everywhere n for the tourist chip stealer Garry the gull. but I’d expect he’s a more formidable foe than a mighty river.
The dedicated FOST team getting lots of these visits to do. MCM and OPV crew swaps necessitate an onsite check to make sure they know what they are doing and that the previous crew hasn’t (Heaven forbid!) been hiding defects so they can go for a Banyan!
Of interest is that the FOST MCM assurance team was onboard HMS Chidingfold when it hit HMS Bangor . I bet that post incident write up was interesting.
UNSAT.
I bet, and a funny one too
millions to build useless yards that took 4 years to build one all that money was better spent on a frigate.
Name a warship in the last 50 years that didn’t cost “millions to build”
The Rivers are far more useful to the Foreign office than to the navy and are better seen as diplomatic assets than actual naval warships.
Yes they are nice looking useless ships that should be looking after the british fishing industry not going making a joke out of themselves… Let’s face it they could never worry anybody….
What do you mean?
The Rivers are massively over specced for fishery protection-that needs a 50m thing with an HMG in a remote mounting.
They are very good at counter piracy and narcotics, the very things they spend their time doing.
Useless against.. Let’s say Russia, China. Argentina or north Korea, but that’s just my opinion. Ps I wish all RN vessels. Could be cammo.