HMS Pembroke (M107)

HMS Pembroke
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Pembroke
OperatorRoyal Navy
BuilderVosper Thornycroft
Launched12 December 1997
Commissioned6 October 1998
HomeportHMNB Clyde
Identification
StatusDecommissioned
General characteristics
Class & typeSandown-class minehunter
Displacement600 t (590 long tons; 660 short tons)
Length52.5 m (172 ft 3 in)
Beam10.9 m (35 ft 9 in)
Draught2.3 m (7 ft 7 in)
Installed power
Propulsion
Speed13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement34 (accommodation for up to 40)
Sensors &
processing systems
  • Radar Type 1007 I-Band
  • Sonar Type 2093
Electronic warfare
& decoys
Armament

HMS Pembroke was a Sandown-class minehunter of the Royal Navy (RN), the second ship launched from the class' second batch, with several improvements over the first five built.

Posted for three years to the Persian Gulf between 2009 and 2012, Pembroke was later deployed in international exercises and historic unexploded ordnance detection in home waters. She was the first of the RN Mine Countermeasures Vessels fitted with the Oceanographic Reconnaissance Combat Architecture system which replaced the previous NAUTIS system in early 2020.

As part of RN plans to replace all mine countermeasures vessels with autonomous uncrewed vessels, a decommissioning service and Freedom of Pembroke parade was held on 23 July 2023. She was decommissioned as of January 2024 and to be renamed M271 Căpitan Constantin Dumitrescu when she enters Romanian Navy service.