HMS St David

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Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS St David, after Saint David, patron saint of Wales:

  • HMS St David was a 54-gun fourth rate launched in 1667. She foundered in 1690, was raised in 1691 and hulked, and finally sold in 1713.
  • HMS St David is the name given to a number of tenders of the south Wales Royal Naval Reserve unit, later HMS Flying Fox:
    • Motor minesweeper 233 was HMS St David between 1948 and 1956
    • HMS Brereton was HMS St David between 1954 and 1961
    • HMS Crichton was HMS St David between 1961 and 1976.
  • HMS St David was a converted minesweeper launched in 1972 as the commercial trawler Suffolk Monarch. She was converted and commissioned into the Severn RNVR in 1978 and was returned to her original owner in 1983. She was converted into an oil rig safety/standby vessel.
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