Name HMS Blazer Commissioned 1988 Status in active service Displacement 54,000 kg | Motto "Premier in the First" Weight 54 tons Builder VT Group | |
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Class and type Archer-class patrol vessel | ||
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 diesel engines. The ship is based at HMS Nelson, the shore base in Portsmouth and was commissioned in 1988.
Blazer carries a crew of four plus a commanding officer. She operates with a training officer plus a complement of students which is attached to the Southampton University Royal Naval Unit (SURNU), under the command of Lt Joseph Currin RN.
Tasking includes: officer cadet training with Britannia Royal Naval College; VVIP visits and security patrols.
In 1993 Blazer was involved in a fishing incident with French trawlers at the port of Cherbourg.
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