HMS Blazer (P279)
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HMS Blazer, 2007
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| Name: | HMS Blazer |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Vosper Thornycroft |
| Commissioned: | 1988 |
| Motto: | "Premier in the First" |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2025[update] |
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| Class & type: | Archer-class patrol vessel |
| Displacement: | 54 tonnes[1] |
| Length: | 20.8 m |
| Beam: | 5.8 m |
| Draught: | 1.8 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, Rolls Royce M800T diesels, 1,590 bhp |
| Speed: | |
| Range: | 550 nmi (1,020 km) |
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| Sensors and processing systems: |
Decca 1216 navigation radar |
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HMS Blazer is an Archer-class patrol vessel of the Royal Navy. She was built by Vosper Thornycroft. She is just over 20 metres long and 5.8 metres wide and powered by two Rolls-Royce turbo engines. The ship is based at HMS Nelson, the shore base in Portsmouth and was commissioned in 1988.
She has four crew plus a commanding officer, and sails with a training officer and a complement of students. She is attached to the Southampton University Royal Naval Unit (SURNU), under the command of Lt Nicholas Palmer RN. Wider tasking includes: officer cadet training with Britannia Royal Naval College; VVIP visits; security patrols.
In 1993 she was involved in a fishing incident with French trawlers at the port of Cherbourg.
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- Royal Navy HMS Blazer (royalnavy.mod.uk)
- Southampton URNU (surnu.co.uk)
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- ↑ Royal Navy - Patrol Boats - Archer class, royalnavy.mod.uk, Retrieved 14 June 2014
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