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	HMS Echo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sixth Echo was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1827, converted to a tugboat in 1830, and sold 1885.
		The eighth Echo (A72) was a survey vessel, the lead ship of her class, launched in 1957 and sold in 1986.
		The ninth Echo (H87) is a hydrographic survey ship, the lead ship of her class, launched in 2002 and on active service as of 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Echo (247 words)

	HMS Echo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The third Echo was a 16-gun (A sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow) sloop in service from 1782 to 1797.
		The fourth Echo was also a 16-gun (A sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow) sloop, launched 1797 and sold 1809.
		The eighth Echo (A72) was a (Click link for more info and facts about survey vessel) survey vessel, the (Click link for more info and facts about lead ship) lead ship of her class, launched in 1957 and sold in 1986.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/HM/HMS_Echo2.htm (307 words)

	Royal Navy
		A new HMS Echo was launched at Liverpool in October 1782, name ship of a class of 16-gun ship-rigged sloops; she was the first vessel specifically designed to carry the new carronades.
		The next HMS Echo, the fifth of the name, was a ‘Cruiser’ Class brig-rigged sloop, one of more than a hundred built to the same design; 100 ft length on deck, 382 tons, armed with sixteen broadside 32 pdr carronades and a pair of 6 pdr chase guns.
		After a three-month refit HMS Echo rejoined 3rd DF as escort on the Iceland-Murmansk route, then, after a period on the Iceland-Scapa-Rosyth convoy routes, went to Gibraltar with a convoy, where she joined the carrier USS Wasp on a flying-off operation to Malta in April 1942.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /rn/print.php?page=3497 (1586 words)

	HMS Echo named (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		HMS Echo, the Royal Navy’s new Multi-Role Hydrographic and Oceanographic Survey Vessel, was named today (4 March) by Lady Haddacks at Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd, Appledore in Devon.
		HMS Echo and her sister ship HMS Enterprise were ordered from Vosper Thornycroft (VT) (UK) Ltd, with construction sub-contracted by VT to Appledore Shipbuilders.
		“HMS Echo has been built with state-of-the-art technology, making her one of the most advanced ships in the world and will play a vital role in the Royal Navy’s future operations world-wide.
	www.mod.uk /dpa/news/pn2002/mar02/echo.htm (478 words)

	HMS Echo
		H.M.S. The first vessel of the (E) class was built at the Cowes yard of J Samuel White and launched on the 1st of May 1957.
		Prior to joining 'ECHO' I, like so many others, had watched her and her sisters disappear down the Medway as soon as the sun came out and temperatures started to rise and return as soon as the autumn winds blew the mercury down again.
		HMS Echo was acquired by THE MARINE SOCIETY (Click here) in 1987 and renamed 'EARL OF ROMNEY' and is today fulfilling a training role with the Society.
	www.zyworld.com /HMSECHO/Echo/HMSEcho.htm (1238 words)

	Encyclopedia: Royal Navy
		HMS Invincible, Invincible class aircraft carrier The Invincible class aircraft carrier is a design currently in use by the Royal Navy.
		HMS Ocean A Landing Platform, Helicopter is a warship designed to deliver troops into a war zone by helicopter, but which usually has a limited capability of landing troops by sea using small landing craft.
		HMS Echo, survey vessel HMS Echo Image obtained from the Royal Navy website File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Royal-Navy (10545 words)

	HMS Echo
		The sixth Echo was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1827, converted to a tug in 1830, and sold 1885.
		The seventh Echo was a destroyer launched in 1934 and on loan to the Greek Navy as Navarinon from 1944 to 1956, then broken up.
		The eighth Echo was a survey vessel launched in 1957 and sold in 1986.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hms_echo (239 words)

	Echo Class Multi-Role Hydrographic and Oceanographic Survey Vessels
		When the ocean survey vessel HMS Hecla (A133) left service in 1997, she was one of the oldest serving ships in the Royal Navy, having first commissioned in 1965.
		Firstly, at 13,500-tonnes HMS Scott was much bigger than the vessel she replaced and she was also the largest survey vessel in Western Europe.
		Thirdly, HMS Scott was fitted with the very latest equipment and represented a vast technological improvement over her predecessors, capable of working in deeper waters and of processing information at a much greater rate: she could map an area of seabed in a matter of hours, when it would have taken her predecessor several days.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Today/echo.htm (1710 words)

	Science Fair Projects - HMS Enterprise (H88)
		The tenth HMS Enterprise (H88) of the Royal Navy is a multi-role SVHO (Survey Vessel (Hydrographic/Oceanographic)), along with her sister ship Echo.
		Built by Appledore Shipbuilders under the prime contractor Vosper Thornycroft, Enterprise was launched on 27 April 2002, officially named by the ship's sponsor, Mrs S Forbes, at her Naming Ceremony on 2 May 2002, and commissioned 18 October 2003.
		Echo and Enterprise are the first Royal Navy ships to be fitted with azimuth thrusters.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/HMS_Enterprise_%28H88%29 (467 words)

	HMS Echo - Death of two crew in Thames Estuary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In 'ECHO' as well as signalling the end of our Easter Leave period and the start of the 1964 surveying season it was, for 33 year old Lieutenant Commander P.G.N. CARDNO RN, his first command appointment.
		From the bridge of 'ECHO' it could be seen that as the tide began to rise the wave height was increasing and the water disturbance around the edge of the Bank was worsening as efforts by the shore party to refloat the Dory to return to the ship were started.
		He was acquitted on charges of neglecting to perform his duty by failing to ask for outside assistance to secure the recovery of the party under his command and for failing to give instructions for a careful watch to be kept on the weather.
	www.burrill12.freeserve.co.uk /Echo/echoloss.htm (2506 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - ... as HMS Echo makes her debut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Echo will be available for operations for at least 334 days a year – a 50 per cent improvement on her predecessors – and her improved seakeeping means she can carry out useful work in the rough seas of the South West Approaches for 90 per cent of the year.
		She has a ship’s company of 72 which, like the ocean survey vessel HMS Scott, are rotated, so that Echo will have 49 crew members on board while the remainder are taking leave or undergoing training.
		Echo, which has an all-electric propulsion system, was built at Bideford in Devon by Appledore Shipbuilders, under sub-contract from Vosper Thornycroft Shipbuilding.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2002/0212/0002121902.asp (538 words)

	Armed Forces - Royal Navy - n3a11 - Ocean Survey Vessels - Coastal Survey Vessels - Hydrographic Survey Vessels - Echo ...
		HMS Scott was ordered in January 1995 and entered service in June 1997. She is equipped with an integrated navigation suite for surveying operations, together with a Sonar Array Sounding System (SASS) and data processing equipment. She also has gravimeters, a towed proton magnetometer and the Sonar 2090 ocean environment sensor.
		HMS Gleaner is the smallest commissioned ship in the Royal Navy with a complement of 8.
		As with HMS Scott (see previous entry) the ships are planned to work over 300 days per year at sea.
	www.armedforces.co.uk /navy/listings/l0020.html (496 words)

	Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS Echo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		HMS Echo is the 12th ship in a colourful line to bear the name.
		The first and second Echos were captured as prizes from the French, and were used by the English between 1758 and 1781.
		Echo (motto Marte et Art: By Mars and Art) is fitted with a huge array of military data-gathering equipment.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/echo.asp (741 words)

	HMS Enterprise - The Charybdis Sector
		HMS Enterprise was launched on 27 April 2002, she was officially named by the ship’s sponsor, Mrs S Forbes, at her Naming Ceremony on 2 May 2002.
		HMS Enterprise represents a major improvement to the Royal Navy's surveying and general environmental data gathering ability.
		HMS Enterprise will be able to collect information on all aspects of the environment (from the seabed to the upper atmosphere), process and send the information to Warfare Commanders in real time.
	www.ussintrepid.net /companel/index.php?showtopic=96 (352 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - E class Destroyers
		HMS Esk and HMS Express were designed to be modified in 24 hours to the minelaying role.
		HMS Echo (H 23) (To Royal Hellenic Navy as RHS Navarinon)
		HMS Eclipse (H 08) (lost 24 Oct, 1943)
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=13 (399 words)

	HMS Echo - Destroyer
		There may have been some good commissions in the first 'ECHO' whilst she was gaining her battle honours in the latter half of the 18th century.
		The tenth 'ECHO' was a much more recent ship and was known to a number of you through WWII and into the 50's by which time she had transferred to the Greek Navy and renamed NAVARINON.
		This 'ECHO' was 329' (100.4M) long overall with abeam of 33' (10.3M) and a draught of 12'6" (3.8M).
	www.zyworld.com /HMSECHO/Echo/HMSEcho3.htm (763 words)

	Royal Navy
		HMS Gamecock was also a centre for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Air branch) and was used by 1833 (RNVR) Squadron.
		HMS Gamecock, as the name implies, suggests an association with the game bird and it is believed that a cock-fighting pit did exist within the station perimeter – not far from the Officers Mess.
		HMS Tracker was one of the many Landing Ship, Tanks (LST's) constructed in the latter stages of the Second World War.
	home.att.net /~b.lockyer/royal_navy.htm (1491 words)

	HMS Enterprise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The ninth HMS Enterprise (A 71)[?] was an Inshore Survey ship built by M.W. Blackmore & Sons of Bedeford and commissioned in 1959.
		With her sister ships HMS Echo[?] and Egeria[?], Enterprises career was spent in hydrographic surveys of the seas, sandbanks, and coastlines of the East Coast and Eastern English Channel.
		The tenth HMS Enterprise (A88)[?] (and her sister ship HMS Echo[?]) are multi-role SVHOs -- Survey Vessels (Hydrographic/Oceanographic) -- built by Appledore Shipbuilders[?] under the prime contractor Vosper Thornycroft[?].
	www.eurofreehost.com /hm/HMS_Enterprise_8.html (364 words)

	AndyTheobald; CEO, ts Earl of Romney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The ship paid off at the end of that year so I transferred to the County Class Guided Missile Destroyer, HMS Fife in January 1970 and during a world cruise I completed my training and was promoted to Chief Petty Officer, Mechanician 1st class.
		During 1973 and 1974 I worked in the Reserve Ships Unit at Chatham then served on the type 61 Air Direction frigates HMS Llandaff on the first leg of another world cruise, leaving her in New Zealand and HMS Salisbury in UK waters.
		HMS Echo – T.S. Earl of Romney and HMS Enterprise, also owned by The Marine Society but never deployed as a training ship).
	www.marine-society.org /profile/andy_theobald.html (514 words)

	HMS Echo greets HMS Echo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		But on 25 August the Royal Navy’s former HMS Echo, a 160 ton Inshore Survey Vessel commissioned in 1958, met her modern namesake in the English Channel.
		The modern HMS Echo is the twelfth Royal Navy ship to bear the name.
		Coincidentally, the first HMS Echo, a captured French privateer, was built in the very year that The Marine Society was founded: 1756.
	www.marine-society.org /pressrel/press3.html (245 words)

	Royal Navy: HMS Echo
		We are the first of two Multi-role Survey Vessels (Hydrographic/Oceanographic (SVHOs)) built by Appledore ship builders in North Devon under the prime contractor Vosper Thorneycroft Ltd. The ship is 90.6m long with a displacement of 3,470 tonnes and is capable of 15 knots.
		HMS Echo was launched on 2 March 2002 and named by Lady Haddacks in Appledore on 4 March the same year.
		The name HMS Echo has had a long and distinguished career with battle honours ranging from Quebec in 1759 to the Malta Convoys in 1942.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/3495.html (121 words)

	BBC Online - Devon - News - The Devonport based ship HMS Herald arrives back for the last time today
		After dozens of enthusiastic "welcome homes" in the past, HMS Herald will be returning from active service for the final time.
		HMS Herald's final deployment involved gathering information to update hydrographic charts for both civil and military purposes.
		The first, HMS Echo, is due to come into service by the end of next year.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/news/042001/12/herald.shtml (219 words)

	The Ultimate HMS Enterprise (A71) Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The ninth HMS Enterprise (A 71) of the Royal Navy was an Inshore Survey ship built by M.W. Blackmore & Sons of Bedeford and commissioned in 1959.
		With her sister ships Echo and Egeria, Enterprise's career was spent in hydrographic surveys of the seas, sandbanks, and coastlines of the East Coast and Eastern English Channel.
		She was well-known around the harbours of Eastern England, and showed the flag on many official visits to Belgian, Dutch, and German ports on the North Sea coast, and as far up the Rhine as Cologne.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/HMS_Enterprise_%28A71%29 (141 words)

	HMS Enterprise named (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		HMS Enterprise, the Royal Navy’s new Multi-Role Hydrographic and Oceanographic Survey Vessel was named today (2 May) by Mrs Sally Forbes, wife of Admiral Forbes, the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.
		Together with HMS Echo, which will also enter service in 2003 and HMS Scott, which entered service in 1998, they will give the UK one of the best survey vessel fleets in the world, incorporating leading-edge products developed by QinetiQ, formerly the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency.
		The new ships replace HM Ships Herald, Bulldog, Beagle and Roebuck, which are old and increasingly costly to maintain.
	www.mod.uk /dpa/news/pn2002/may02/enterprise.htm (460 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Hecla class survey vessel
		Three units, HMS Hecla, HMS Hecate and HMS Hydra, were ordered in the early 1960s to replace the aging survey ships Scott and Shackleton.
		A fourth unit, HMS Herald was ordered in the early 1970s.
		Herald was finally decommissioned in 2001, and was replaced the same year by HMS Echo.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Hecla_class_survey_vessel (346 words)

	Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Foreign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		HMS Echo arrives in Helsinki to mark 150th anniversary of naval bombardment of island fortress
		British Ambassador Matthew Kirk and Commander Andy Waddington are standing on the bridge of the survey vessel, the HMS Echo.
		HMS Echo was built in 2002 and taken into use in 2003.
	www.helsinginsanomat.fi /english/article/1101980704085 (568 words)

	HMS Express
		HMS Express served throughout the second world war and took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk.
		History of the HMS Express from her launch to her transfer to the Canadian Navy.
		talking to a member of the Trafford Branch of the RNA it appears that HMS Express was paid for by members of the town of Urmston in Manchester who all contributed a staggering £7 per head to assist with the funding of HMS Express to be built.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_express.htm (1449 words)

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