Name HMS Oulston Launched September 1953 Identification M1129 Length 43 m Displacement 360,000 kg Builder Thornycroft | Namesake Oulston Out of service 1971 Name LÉ Grainne Weight 360 tons Draft 2.49 m | |
LÉ Gráinne (CM10) was a Ton-class minesweeper in the Irish Naval Service. She was the former HMS Oulston. She was named after Gráinne, a legendary princess who was promised to Fionn Mac Cumhail but ran away with his young follower Diarmuid.
Oulston was purchased from the Royal Navy in 1971, and commissioned as Gráinne. She was stricken in 1987 and sold to Spanish interests for breaking.
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