// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did the HMS Sandown say to its friend? "Sea you later".
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sandown. Sandown is a seaside resort on the Isle of Wight, England.
- HMS Sandown (1916), one of 24 Racecourse-class paddle wheel minesweepers, and was launched in 1916 and broken up in 1923.
- HMS Sandown (1939), a paddle wheel ferry built in 1934 for Southern Railway's Portsmouth—Ryde service but requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1939 and converted to a minesweeper, and later in 1942 to an anti-aircraft ship. She was converted back to a ferry in 1945 and was scrapped in 1956.
- HMS Sandown (M101) was a Sandown-class minehunter launched in 1988 and transferred to the Estonian Navy in 2007 as EML Admiral Cowan.
Battle honours
[edit]Ships named Sandown have earned the following battle honours:
References
[edit]- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (3rd Rev ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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