HMS Shoreham
HMS Shoreham sailed in to Shoreham port 14 months after her last visit.
The team at the port wereon hand to wish her a warm welcome and to assist with her safe arrival in to the harbour.
HMS Shoreham was launched by Lady Perowne on April 9, 2001, and was formally accepted into service on November 28, 2001.
She is the fifth vessel to be named after the Sussex port town.
The original HMS Shoreham was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1694.
She was rebuilt as a 20-gun sixth rate in 1720 and sold in 1744.
HMS Shoreham was to have been a Hunt Class minesweeper but she was renamed whilst under construction and launched as HMS Salford in 1919.
From 1932 to 1939 HMS Shoreham served in the Gulf.
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