HMS Cattistock (M31), the third ship of this name, is a Hunt-class minesweeper

Minesweeper (ship)

A minesweeper is a small naval warship designed to counter the threat posed by naval mines. Minesweepers generally detect then neutralize mines in advance of other naval operations.-History:...

 of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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. She was launched in 1981 and commissioned on 5 March 1982, the third ship of her class.

She was mentioned in the media in December 2002 after coliding with a jetty as she was leaving her homeport of HMNB Portsmouth in late November. She was left with a 2 ft hole in her side, although no crew were hurt in the collision. It was the third such collision that year, as HMS Trafalgar

HMS Trafalgar (S107)

HMS Trafalgar is a decommissioned of the Royal Navy. Unlike the rest of the Trafalgar-class boats that followed, she was not launched with a pump jet propulsion system, but with a conventional 7-bladed propeller...

 ran aground off the Isle of Skye earlier in November and HMS Nottingham

HMS Nottingham (D91)

HMS Nottingham was a batch two Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, named after the city of Nottingham, England. She was launched on 18 February 1980, and commissioned on 8 April 1983 as the sixth ship to bear the name....

 hit rocks off the coast of Australia

Australia

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 back in July.

Affiliates

• Cattistock
  Cattistock
  Cattistock is a village in west Dorset, England, sited in the upper reaches of the Frome Valley eight miles north west of Dorchester. The Dorset poet William Barnes called it "elbow-streeted Cattstock", a comment on the less-than-linear village street...
  
  , Dorset
  Dorset
  Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
  
  
• Cattistock Hunt
• Trinity School CCF
• Lilliput Sea Scouts

External links

• RoyalNavy.mod.uk HMS Cattistock Page