HMS Cromer was a Sandown class minehunter

Sandown class minehunter

The Sandown class is a class of minehunter originally built for the British Royal Navy). Sandown-class vessels also serve with the Royal Saudi Navy and the Estonian Navy...

 commissioned by the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1992. She was named after the North Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

 seaside town of the same name

Cromer

Cromer is a coastal town and civil parish in north Norfolk, England. The local government authority is North Norfolk District Council, whose headquarters is in Holt Road in the town. The town is situated 23 miles north of the county town, Norwich, and is 4 miles east of Sheringham...

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HMS Cromer visited Dundee

Dundee

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 on November 6–9, 1998 (for a Dundee navy day and Armistice Day

Armistice Day

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 commemorations) when she was accompanied by various warships from European countries including: Norwegian minelayer/command ship N 52 KNM Vidar, Norwegian minesweeper KNM Maloy, Dutch minesweeper M 860 Hr.Ms. Schiedam, Belgian minesweeper M 917 BNS Crocus, Type 23 frigate

Type 23 frigate

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 HMS Montrose

HMS Montrose (F236)

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 and German minesweeper

Lindau class minesweeper

Type 320 Lindau-class minesweepers was a class of German coastal mine warfare vessels built as part of the first FRG naval program. The ships were made from non-metallic components and built by Burmester Bremen. None of these ships now remain in service with the German Navy. Several went into...

 F45 FGS Volkingen.

She was decommissioned in 2001 before being refitted for use as a training ship at the Britannia Royal Naval College

Britannia Royal Naval College

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at Dartmouth. In keeping with tradition, for this role the ship has been renamed Hindostan. As she is not a commissioned ship she is not prefixed "HMS".