NAVY NEWS, MARCH 2011
11 ‘Awesome beastie’ sighted...
THERE was some sparkle in the Granite City last month as her own warship paid her inaugural visit to Aberdeen.
Brand-new £1bn destroyer HMS Diamond spent a weekend on the north-east coast of Scotland forging ties with one of her two affi liated cities (the other is Coventry, rather trickier to sail into...). Although some of the ship’s
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company have already started to build links with Aberdeen – and have paid a few visits – the Type 45 destroyer has not. Trials off the Scottish coast (including some work with the Sea Kings of HMS Gannet) have fi nally afforded the chance for Diamond herself to drop in on Aberdeen.
at the foot of Loch Striven before conducting some exercises with a Sea King from HMS Gannet (and, perhaps, a little showing off of the 45’s impressive manoeuvrability– as evidenced by the photograph taken by LA(Phot) Nick Crusham in the back of the helicopter).
Firth, the destroyer arrived in Aberdeen, where locals haven’t had an affi liated warship since HMS Scylla paid off more than 17 years ago. (HMS Archer is based in the city, but she’s bound with its universities.)
So to mark the occasion they held a celebratory dinner at the Beach Ballroom for the ship’s company.
visitors, allowing the public to see a little of the hi-tech wizardry which makes her Britain’s most advanced warship – and to chat to the ship’s company without whom that wizardry would count for nought. One visitor described the 8,000-ton warship as “an awesome-looking beastie”. As well as the general public, the ship invited three local Sea Cadet units – TS Scylla, Gowanlea and Bon Accord – on board and staged a capability demonstration (minus fi ring her main armament obviously...) for Aberdeen’s movers and shakers, led by the city’s Lord Provost Peter Stephen, The ship was due to spend four days alongside in Aberdeen port... but the inclement Scottish weather meant her stay was extended by 24 hours. The ship has now resumed her extensive trials ahead of formally commissioning in Portsmouth in May.
As for the ship, she opened her upper deck to After negotiating Cape Wrath and the Pentland The ship made a pitstop at the naval fuel depot
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