HMS Sandown

HMS Sandown

Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS "Sandown". Sandown is a seaside resort on the Isle of Wight, England.

*, one of 24 Racecourse class paddle wheel minesweepers, and was launched in 1916 and broken up in 1923.
*, a paddle wheel ferry built in 1934 for Southern Railway's Portsmouth—Ryde service but requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1939 and converted to a minesweeper, and later in 1942 to an anti-aircraft ship. She was converted back to a ferry in 1945 and was scrapped in 1956.
* was a "Sandown" class minehunter launched in 1988 and transferred to the Estonian Navy in 2007 as EML "Admiral Cowan".

References

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* [http://www.navynews.co.uk/ships/sandown.asp Navynews - Ships of the Royal Navy]
* [http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/static/pages/3998.html MOD page on HMS Sandown]
* [http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsS.html The Ships List]


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