Ship ID please...

[texaxile]

Hi,
I'm going through my Dad's stuff (old pics etc) from his Royal Navy days, and we've come across one which he can't recall the name of. All I can say is that it would have been taken around the 50's , and he seems to think it's a Minesweeper, however a reverse google image search somes up with a heavy cruiser! (which it obviously is not).





for the plane enthusiasts among us, I've got a fair few pics from HMS Hornbill but they're not fantastic, mostly of formations and a blurry twin prop Seafire, I'll try to get some pics of them and uploaded once i've sorted through the mountain of family photo's and RN photo's that are all mixed in, plus I've not even started on the "slides" yet!!.

[shouldbworking]

Google says it's HMS Orestes, an Algerine class minesweeper.

http://www.britisharmedforces.org/pages/pages/nat_...

[texaxile]

shouldbworking said:

Google says it's HMS Orestes, an Algerine class minesweeper.

http://www.britisharmedforces.org/pages/pages/nat_...

Ahh, many thanks for that, Dad'll be pleased as well. Out of interest how did you manage to find that out, I googled "M277" and "Royal Navy M277" and also did a reverse google search but to no avail.

I owe you a beer chap! (or a tot of Rum)

[V8FGO]

I used RN Minesweeper "M277".

Also found this
http://www.minesweepers.org.uk/badges/page4.htm

[texaxile]

Thanks for the link. I can't help but feel some emotion when I look at the names and what happened to the Ships after their service.

The choice of names as well, along with the shields and the story of the Ships name;

HMS Orestes:

King Agamemnon had been murdered. His son, Orestes, obtained vengeance by killing the attackers - his mother Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus. (“Aegis” is Greek for goatskin). (Ship adopted by Egham, Surrey). (1942). White; a goat’s head erased black armed gold pierced through the neck by a sword fesswise red pommel and hilt black.



I thought "Aegis" was going to the the name of some great Warrior or action, given that "Aegis" is the name the Yanks use for their class of weapon system lol. Turns out it's Greek for "goatskin".

[FourWheelDrift]

texaxile said:

I thought "Aegis" was going to the the name of some great Warrior or action, given that "Aegis" is the name the Yanks use for their class of weapon system lol. Turns out it's Greek for "goatskin".

Aegis was a shield held by the gods, at the time that was made of goatskin.