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{{Short description|Class of patrol and training vessel of the Royal Navy}} |
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{{For|other ship classes of the same name|Archer class}} |
{{For|other ship classes of the same name|Archer class (disambiguation){{!}}Archer class}} |
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*[[Vosper Thornycroft]] |
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*[[Ailsa Shipbuilding Company]] |
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[[Royal Oman Police]] |
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*18 (training){{#tag:ref|5 ship's company, 1 training officer, 12 URNU students.|group=N}} |
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*1 × [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon]] on [[forecastle|fo'c'sle]] ("[[for but not with]]") |
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The '''''Archer'' class''' (or '''P2000''') is a [[ship class|class]] of patrol and training vessel in service with the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[Royal Navy]], commonly referred to as a |
The '''''Archer'' class''' (or '''P2000''') is a [[ship class|class]] of [[Patrol boat|patrol]] and [[Training ship|training vessel]] in service with the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[Royal Navy]], commonly referred to as a "fast training boat".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gillespie.ndo.co.uk/Navy/Archer.htm |title=''Archer'' Class Patrol and Training Vessel |website=Ships of the Royal Navy |access-date=25 March 2010 |quote=An interesting quirk of the ''Archer'' class is that although the regular crew have their own cabins, the [[midshipmen]] sleep in the gun-room. Traditionally this is where midshipmen have always been berthed but in the ''Archer'' class it is literally true as they sleep in the magazine of the ''Archer'' class. Since such trips only occur in times of peace, the gun which an ''Archer'' class vessel is capable of carrying is not fitted and so there is no other use for the magazine. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329155926/http://www.gillespie.ndo.co.uk/Navy/Archer.htm |archive-date=29 March 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Most are assigned to [[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]]. {{HMS|Tracker|P274|6}} and {{HMS|Raider|P275|6}} are armed and provide maritime force protection to high value shipping in the [[Firth of Clyde]] and are most commonly employed as escorts for submarines transiting to [[Faslane]]. {{HMS|Pursuer|P273|2}} and {{HMS|Dasher|P280|2}} were also armed during their deployment on maritime force protection duties with the [[Gibraltar Squadron]] from 2020-2022. |
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==Development== |
==Development== |
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Ten vessels were ordered as the P2000 class, based on a design of an [[Oman]]i coastguard cutter, from Watercraft Marine. They are twin-shaft vessels with moulded [[glass-reinforced plastic]] hulls of 54 |
Ten vessels were ordered as the P2000 class, based on a design of an [[Oman]]i coastguard cutter, from Watercraft Marine. They are twin-shaft vessels with moulded [[glass-reinforced plastic]] hulls of {{convert|54|t|LT|lk=on}} [[Displacement (ship)|displacement]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/the-equipment/ships/patrol-and-mine-hunters/fast-patrol-boats |title=Patrol Boats – Archer class |website=Royal Navy |access-date=4 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.armedforces.co.uk/navy/listings/l0022.html |title=Archer Class P2000 (URNU) |website=Armed Forces.net |access-date=9 March 2019}}</ref> After that company went into [[liquidation]], the balance of the order was completed by [[Vosper Thornycroft]]. |
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The '' |
The ''Archer''s were initially used as Royal Navy patrol craft and as training tenders for the [[Royal Naval Reserve]] (RNR) and [[University Royal Naval Unit]]s (URNU). Four identical vessels were ordered for the [[Royal Naval Auxiliary Service]] (RNXS) as ''Example''-class tenders. When that service was disbanded in 1994, the ''Example''s were transferred to the Royal Navy for similar duties as their ''Archer''-class brethren (under the same names under which they served as "XSVs", all of which begin with the first syllable "Ex"). Until 2005, the four ''Example''s were painted with a black hull. |
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In 1998 two additional vessels ( |
In 1998 two additional vessels ({{HMS|Raider|P275|2}} and {{HMS|Tracker|P274|2}}) of this design were commissioned into the Royal Navy from [[Ailsa Shipbuilding Company]], to replace {{HMS|Loyal Watcher}} and {{HMS|Loyal Chancellor}} as URNU training vessels for the two newest URNUs, serving [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] and [[Oxford University|Oxford]] Universities respectively (''Raider'' was later transferred to Bristol URNU whilst {{HMS|Trumpeter|P294|2}} became the ship of Cambridge URNU). This brought the total of ''Archer''-class vessels in the Royal Navy to sixteen, of which fourteen form the Coastal Forces Squadron Squadron (formerly the 1st Patrol Boat Squadron), each one formerly attached to an URNU (one per unit) under the command of a [[Lieutenant (navy)|lieutenant]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/669180/response/1596389/attach/2/FOI%202020%2006471Final%20response.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1 |title=Coastal Forces Squadron |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=6 July 2020 |website=whatdotheyknow.com |access-date=16 July 2020 |quote=I can confirm that Ministerial approval for the change in name from 1st Patrol Boat Squadron to Coastal Forces Squadron was given on 21 May 2020.}}</ref> The remaining two vessels ({{HMS|Pursuer|P273|2}} and {{HMS|Dasher|P280|2}}), having formed the [[Royal Navy Cyprus Squadron|Cyprus Squadron]] from 2003 to 2010, and URNU vessels before that,<ref group=N>''Pursuer'' was allocated to Sussex URNU, ''Dasher'' to Bristol URNU. They were replaced by ''Ranger'' and ''Trumpeter'' respectively in 2004.</ref> returned to the UK in April 2010 to form the Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron, performing security duties within [[HMNB Clyde]]. |
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In 2012 ''Dasher'' and ''Pursuer'' were replaced by ''Raider'' and ''Tracker'' - these can be identified by a number of pintle-mounted [[L7 (machine gun)|L7 7.62 mm GPMG]] [[machine gun]]s and armour plating. |
In 2012 ''Dasher'' and ''Pursuer'' were replaced by ''Raider'' and ''Tracker'' - these can be identified by a number of pintle-mounted [[L7 (machine gun)|L7 7.62 mm GPMG]] [[machine gun]]s and armour plating. {{HMS|Ranger|P293|2}} and {{HMS|Trumpeter|P294|2}} were also formerly allocated to the [[Gibraltar Squadron]] for [[guard ship]] and [[search and rescue]] duties, but were replaced by the dedicated {{sclass|Scimitar|patrol vessel|4}}. These two ships were also used during the Thames River Pageant, escorting the Royal Barge during [[Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee]]. Unlike the remainder of the class, both these ships remain capable of mounting a [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm]] cannon on the fo'c'sle. |
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The NATO designation of a P2000 is "PBR", denoting a " |
The NATO designation of a P2000 is "PBR", denoting a "patrol boat - riverine and harbours"{{cn|date=June 2020}}. |
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==Vessels in the class== |
==Vessels in the class== |
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[[File:Royal Navy P2000 Patrol Boat HMS Dasher MOD 45152119.jpg|thumb|HMS ''Dasher'' pictured whilst escorting the nuclear submarine |
[[File:Royal Navy P2000 Patrol Boat HMS Dasher MOD 45152119.jpg|thumb|HMS ''Dasher'' pictured whilst escorting the nuclear submarine {{HMS|Vanguard|S28|6}} to her berth at [[HMNB Clyde]]]] |
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! colspan="6" |Royal Oman Police |
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|Dheeb Al Bahari |
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|{{HMS|Archer|P264|2}} |
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|P264 |
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|Watercraft Marine |
|Watercraft Marine |
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|1985 |
|1985 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]] |
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|Edinburgh URNU |
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|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Biter|P270|2}} |
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|P270 |
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|Watercraft Marine |
|Watercraft Marine |
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|1986 |
|1986 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]] |
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|Manchester URNU |
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|In active service |
|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Smiter|P272|2}} |
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|P272 |
|P272 |
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|Watercraft Marine |
|Watercraft Marine |
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|1988 |
|1988 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]] |
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|Oxford URNU |
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|In active service |
|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Pursuer|P273|2}} |
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|P273 |
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|[[Vosper Thornycroft]], [[Woolston, Hampshire|Woolston]] |
|[[Vosper Thornycroft]], [[Woolston, Hampshire|Woolston]] |
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|1988 |
|1988 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]]<ref name="farewell">{{cite web |url=https://www.gbc.gi/news/royal-navy-gibraltar-squadron-bid-farewell-hms-dasher-hms-pursuer |title=Royal Navy Gibraltar Squadron bid farewell to HMS Dasher & HMS Pursuer |work=gbc.gi |date=17 May 2022 |access-date=18 May 2022}}</ref> |
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|Glasgow URNU |
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|{{HMS|Blazer|P279|2}} |
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|P279 |
|P279 |
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|Vosper Thornycroft |
|Vosper Thornycroft |
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|1988 |
|1988 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]] |
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|Southampton URNU |
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|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Dasher|P280|2}} |
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|P280 |
|P280 |
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|Vosper Thornycroft |
|Vosper Thornycroft |
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|1988 |
|1988 |
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| [[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]]<ref name="farewell"/> |
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|Bristol URNU |
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|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Puncher|P291|2}} |
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|P291 |
|P291 |
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|Vosper Thornycroft |
|Vosper Thornycroft |
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|1988 |
|1988 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]] |
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|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Charger|P292|2}} |
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|P292 |
|P292 |
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|Vosper Thornycroft |
|Vosper Thornycroft |
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|1988 |
|1988 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]] |
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|Liverpool URNU |
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|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Ranger|P293|2}} |
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|P293 |
|P293 |
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|Vosper Thornycroft |
|Vosper Thornycroft |
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|1988 |
|1988 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]] |
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|In active service |
|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Trumpeter|P294|2}} |
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|P294 |
|P294 |
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|Vosper Thornycroft |
|Vosper Thornycroft |
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|1988 |
|1988 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]] |
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|Cambridge URNU |
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|In active service |
|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Example|P165|2}} (ex-XSV ''Example'') |
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|P165 (ex-A153) |
|P165 (ex-A153) |
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|Watercraft Marine |
|Watercraft Marine |
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|1985 |
|1985 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]] |
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|Northumbrian URNU |
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|In active service |
|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Explorer|P164|2}} (ex-XSV ''Explorer'') |
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|P164(ex-A154) |
|P164 (ex-A154) |
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|Watercraft Marine |
|Watercraft Marine |
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|1986 |
|1986 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]] |
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|Yorkshire URNU |
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|In active service |
|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Express|P163|2}} (ex-XSV ''Express'') |
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|P163 (ex-A163) |
|P163 (ex-A163) |
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|Vosper Thornycroft |
|Vosper Thornycroft |
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|1988 |
|1988 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]] |
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|Wales URNU |
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|In active service |
|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Exploit|P167|2}} (ex-XSV ''Exploit'') |
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|P167 (ex-A167) |
|P167 (ex-A167) |
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|Vosper Thornycroft |
|Vosper Thornycroft |
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|1988 |
|1988 |
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|[[Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy|Coastal Forces Squadron]] |
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|Birmingham URNU |
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|In active service |
|In active service |
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|{{HMS|Tracker|P274|2}} |
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|P274 |
|P274 |
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|[[Ailsa Shipbuilding Company]], [[Troon]] |
|[[Ailsa Shipbuilding Company]], [[Troon]] |
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|Ailsa Shipbuilding Company |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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* [[Harbour |
* [[Harbour defence motor launch]] - World War II equivalent |
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* [[Patrol Craft Fast]] - the "Swift Boats" |
* [[Patrol Craft Fast]] - the "Swift Boats" |
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==Bibliography== |
==Bibliography== |
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{{refbegin}} |
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*{{cite book |last=Beaver |first=Paul |date=1996 |title=Britain's Modern Royal Navy |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |isbn=1-85260-442-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/britainsmodernro0000beav }} |
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*{{cite book |last=Flack |first=Jeremy |date=1996 |title=Today's Royal Navy in Colour |publisher=Greenwich Editions |isbn=0-86288-089-0}} |
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==External links== |
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{{Commons category|Archer class patrol vessel}} |
{{Commons category|Archer class patrol vessel}} |
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*{{cite web |url=https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/equipment/ships/archer-class |title=Patrol Boats - Archer class |website=Royal Navy}} |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Archer class |
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| Operators | |
| Succeeded by | Scimitar class; Cutlass class |
| In commission | 1985–present |
| Active | 17 (16 Royal Navy, 1 Royal Oman Police) |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Patrol boat & training vessel |
| Displacement | 54 t (53 long tons) |
| Length | 20.8 m (68 ft 3 in) |
| Beam | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts, Cat C18 ACERT diesels |
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| Range | 550 nmi (1,020 km; 630 mi) |
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| Sensors and processing systems | Decca 1216 navigation radar |
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The Archer class (or P2000) is a class of patrol and training vessel in service with the United Kingdom's Royal Navy, commonly referred to as a "fast training boat".[1] Most are assigned to Coastal Forces Squadron. HMS Tracker and HMS Raider are armed and provide maritime force protection to high value shipping in the Firth of Clyde and are most commonly employed as escorts for submarines transiting to Faslane. Pursuer and Dasher were also armed during their deployment on maritime force protection duties with the Gibraltar Squadron from 2020-2022.
Development
[edit]Ten vessels were ordered as the P2000 class, based on a design of an Omani coastguard cutter, from Watercraft Marine. They are twin-shaft vessels with moulded glass-reinforced plastic hulls of 54 tonnes (53 long tons) displacement.[2][3] After that company went into liquidation, the balance of the order was completed by Vosper Thornycroft.
The Archers were initially used as Royal Navy patrol craft and as training tenders for the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) and University Royal Naval Units (URNU). Four identical vessels were ordered for the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service (RNXS) as Example-class tenders. When that service was disbanded in 1994, the Examples were transferred to the Royal Navy for similar duties as their Archer-class brethren (under the same names under which they served as "XSVs", all of which begin with the first syllable "Ex"). Until 2005, the four Examples were painted with a black hull.
In 1998 two additional vessels (Raider and Tracker) of this design were commissioned into the Royal Navy from Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, to replace HMS Loyal Watcher and HMS Loyal Chancellor as URNU training vessels for the two newest URNUs, serving Cambridge and Oxford Universities respectively (Raider was later transferred to Bristol URNU whilst Trumpeter became the ship of Cambridge URNU). This brought the total of Archer-class vessels in the Royal Navy to sixteen, of which fourteen form the Coastal Forces Squadron Squadron (formerly the 1st Patrol Boat Squadron), each one formerly attached to an URNU (one per unit) under the command of a lieutenant.[4] The remaining two vessels (Pursuer and Dasher), having formed the Cyprus Squadron from 2003 to 2010, and URNU vessels before that,[N 2] returned to the UK in April 2010 to form the Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron, performing security duties within HMNB Clyde.
In 2012 Dasher and Pursuer were replaced by Raider and Tracker - these can be identified by a number of pintle-mounted L7 7.62 mm GPMG machine guns and armour plating. Ranger and Trumpeter were also formerly allocated to the Gibraltar Squadron for guard ship and search and rescue duties, but were replaced by the dedicated Scimitar class. These two ships were also used during the Thames River Pageant, escorting the Royal Barge during Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. Unlike the remainder of the class, both these ships remain capable of mounting a 20 mm cannon on the fo'c'sle.
The NATO designation of a P2000 is "PBR", denoting a "patrol boat - riverine and harbours"[citation needed].
Vessels in the class
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| Dheeb Al Bahari | Watercraft Marine, Shoreham-by-Sea | 1985 | Police Coastguard Command | In active service | |
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| Name | Pennant number | Builder | Commissioned | Attached to | Status |
| Archer | P264 | Watercraft Marine | 1985 | Coastal Forces Squadron | In active service |
| Biter | P270 | Watercraft Marine | 1986 | Coastal Forces Squadron | In active service |
| Smiter | P272 | Watercraft Marine | 1988 | Coastal Forces Squadron | In active service |
| Pursuer | P273 | Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston | 1988 | Coastal Forces Squadron[5] | In active service |
| Blazer | P279 | Vosper Thornycroft | 1988 | Coastal Forces Squadron | In active service |
| Dasher | P280 | Vosper Thornycroft | 1988 | Coastal Forces Squadron[5] | In active service |
| Puncher | P291 | Vosper Thornycroft | 1988 | Coastal Forces Squadron | In active service |
| Charger | P292 | Vosper Thornycroft | 1988 | Coastal Forces Squadron | In active service |
| Ranger | P293 | Vosper Thornycroft | 1988 | Coastal Forces Squadron | In active service |
| Trumpeter | P294 | Vosper Thornycroft | 1988 | Coastal Forces Squadron | In active service |
| Example (ex-XSV Example) | P165 (ex-A153) | Watercraft Marine | 1985 | Coastal Forces Squadron | In active service |
| Explorer (ex-XSV Explorer) | P164 (ex-A154) | Watercraft Marine | 1986 | Coastal Forces Squadron | In active service |
| Express (ex-XSV Express) | P163 (ex-A163) | Vosper Thornycroft | 1988 | Coastal Forces Squadron | In active service |
| Exploit (ex-XSV Exploit) | P167 (ex-A167) | Vosper Thornycroft | 1988 | Coastal Forces Squadron | In active service |
| Tracker | P274 | Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Troon | 1998 | Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron | In active service |
| Raider | P275 | Ailsa Shipbuilding Company | 1998 | Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron | In active service |
See also
[edit]- Harbour defence motor launch - World War II equivalent
- CB90-class fast assault craft
- Patrol Craft Fast - the "Swift Boats"
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Archer Class Patrol and Training Vessel". Ships of the Royal Navy. Archived from the original on 29 March 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
An interesting quirk of the Archer class is that although the regular crew have their own cabins, the midshipmen sleep in the gun-room. Traditionally this is where midshipmen have always been berthed but in the Archer class it is literally true as they sleep in the magazine of the Archer class. Since such trips only occur in times of peace, the gun which an Archer class vessel is capable of carrying is not fitted and so there is no other use for the magazine.
- ^ "Patrol Boats – Archer class". Royal Navy. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ "Archer Class P2000 (URNU)". Armed Forces.net. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ "Coastal Forces Squadron" (PDF). whatdotheyknow.com. 6 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
I can confirm that Ministerial approval for the change in name from 1st Patrol Boat Squadron to Coastal Forces Squadron was given on 21 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Royal Navy Gibraltar Squadron bid farewell to HMS Dasher & HMS Pursuer". gbc.gi. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
Bibliography
[edit]- Beaver, Paul (1996). Britain's Modern Royal Navy. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-442-5.
- Flack, Jeremy (1996). Today's Royal Navy in Colour. Greenwich Editions. ISBN 0-86288-089-0.
External links
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- "Patrol Boats - Archer class". Royal Navy.