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HMS Blyth was a Sandown class mine counter measures vessel with the Royal Navy.  She was a frequent visitor to the town having been commissioned in 2001. 

She served the Royal Navy proudly until she was paid off in August 2021 having paid a goodbye visit to the town in July that year. 

She took part in operations all over the world and some active war zones, operation Aintree in the gulf being one example. 

Her story doesn't end with decommissioning though..

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She wont be enjoying a peaceful retirement just yet though and her life is about to get a whole lot more complicated. 

She is currently in refit having been sold to the Ukranian navy.

Although the sale had been agreed long before Russia launched it's invasion of Ukranian territory in February, it's unclear at present when she will actually be handed over since Russia is currently blockading Ukraine's Black sea ports.



 

She isn't the first ship to carry the name Blyth however

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Bangor class mine sweeper HMS Blyth was launched in September 1940 served throughout the second world war. She was placed in reserve in 1946 and sold in 1948 and converted into a ferry named Radbourne.

She was scrapped in 1952.

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