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HMS Forth (1938)
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HMS Forth, pennant number A187, was a submarine
Submarine
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depot ship
Depot ship
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adapted to operate and maintain the Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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's nuclear-powered submarines.
She was completed in 1939. HMS Forth was stationed at Trincomalee
Trincomalee
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, Ceylon during the end of the Second World War.
During her stay in Malta in the 1950s she was moored on the east side of Msida creek. She left Malta in 1960.
HMS Forth took the first Hovercraft
Hovercraft
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to Australia
Australia
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in 1968, a small two or three seater hovercraft.