Name HMS Barcross Laid down 15 April 1941 Renamed HMSAS Somerset in 1943 Length 46 m | Owner Royal Navy Decommissioned 1947 Launched 21 October 1941 Draft 3.37 m | |
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Out of service Transferred to South African Naval Forces, 21 January 1943 Builder Blyth Shipbuilding Company | ||
SAS Somerset was a Bar-class boom defence vessel of the South African Navy, now preserved as a museum ship in Cape Town.
History
Somerset was originally built in Blyth, Northumberland, by Blyth Shipbuilding Company and commissioned as HMS Barcross in 1941.
She is now used as a museum ship, has been moored on the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town since 2 September 1988, and is the only boom defence vessel remaining in the world.
References
SAS Somerset Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA