HMS ''Trumpeter'' is an P2000-type
patrol
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Etymology
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and training vessel of the
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Royal Navy
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. ''Trumpeter'' is assigned to
Cambridge
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University Royal Naval Unit
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, having previously been the training ship of the Bristol University Royal Naval Unit.
Operational history
''HMS Trumpeter'' was commissioned close to her builder's yard in Southampton, early in 1989 at HMS WESSEX the Solent Division RNR Unit based in the former Imperial Flying Boat base in Southampton Docks. As a small, well-equipped navigation training platform her role was introducing Young Officers and newly joined ratings to basic seamanship and life in a small warship whilst giving a first command opportunity to lieutenants who were working towards command of the division's main tender. This is still broadly the role of the P2000 class in all University Royal Naval Units. She then served in the
Gibraltar Squadron
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alongside commencing 1991. With ''Ranger'' she was deployed on the Thames for the
Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant
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to assist in security and partake in the pageant, then later in the same year ''Trumpeter'' assisted in the security for the
2012 London Olympics
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.
In the early 2020s, ''Trumpeter'', along with other ''Archer''-class vessels, was given a more operational role as part of the reconstituted
Coastal Forces Squadron. In early 2024, ''Trumpeter'' and three of her sister ships deployed to northern Norway as part of the NATO exercise "Steadfast Defender".
See also
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Curriers' Company
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The curriers, or "curers of leather", of London formed an organisation in 1272; this merchan ...
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Archer-class patrol vessels
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