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Footlights and highlights
I
F YOU were to walk
east from Portsmouth,
following the line of the
shore like those chaps
and chapesses of the TV
Arctic .................... 1942-43
Sicily...........................1943
programme Coast, you
Salerno .......................1943
would not come across Mediterranean ...........1943
the home of a Royal Navy Sabang .......................1944
warship for a good while.
East Indies .................1944
In fact, the name of the port
Burma ................... 1944-45
Battle Honours
might surprise you: Ipswich.
But the Suffolk town is home
to HMS Raider, the small training
Class: Archer class patrol
and patrol craft which serves
and training vessel (batch
the various universities of East
2)
Anglia. Pennant number: P275
Raider is one of 14 Archer- Builder: Ailsa, Troon
class patrol craft attached to Commissioned: January
universities around the UK, aimed 1988
at introducing undergraduates to
Displacement: 54 tons
the world of the Senior Service
Length: 20.8 metres
– and giving them a bit of pocket
Beam: 5.8 metres
money while studying.
Draught: 1.8 metres
Raider’s offices can be found
Speed: 25 knots
es
in Cambridge, but the University
Royal Navy Unit also draws
Complement: 11
students from the University of
Propulsion: 2 x MTU
East Anglia (Norwich) and Anglia
Diesels generating 2,000hp
Ruskin University (Cambridge
Range: 550 miles at 15kt
and Chelmsford).
Armament: Fitted for
Although one of the smallest
but not with 1 x Oerlikon
vessels in the RN, Raider cannot
20mm
get down the rivers of East Anglia Serves: Cambridge,
to reach Cambridge – not without University of East Anglia
losing her masts and antennae and Anglia Ruskin
at any rate (she can, however, University
navigate as far as Wisbech on the
Based: Ipswich
Nene).
● HMS Raider races through Sandown Bay off the Isle of Wight on a fi ne spring day
The winter months are used
Facts and figur
for training and a spell in a yard crewed by her complement of full- and spent Easter sailing around for Archer-class boats (Tracker The first HMS Raider was a – while her ship’s company earned
on Tyneside for repairs and time RN personnel and students, Belgium and Holland with her was the other); one notable feature Great War R-class destroyer which four Distinguished Service Medals
maintenance, but with spring accompanied by her sister ship students aboard. of these improved Archers is their served for 11 years. and five Mentions in Dispatches.
comes the busy season once HMS Tracker, which serves Raider was commissioned a more powerful engines, allowing The second Raider had a She was sold to the Indian Navy
again. Oxford University. decade ago, replacing HMS Loyal her to reach speeds of up to 25kts, particularly distinguished career in after World War 2 and served her
Last year saw Raider deploy This year Raider has taken part Watcher as Cambridge URNU’s not 20kts like her older sisters. the Mediterranean and Far East. new owners admirably as INS
around the North Sea, visiting in high-profile commemorations dedicated vessel. Two previous Raiders have All the ship’s battle honours Rana until 1976 before being
Holland, Belgium and Germany, of the Channel Dash off Deal She is one of two Batch 2 orders hoisted the White Ensign. were earned by the second Raider broken up.
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