HMS Brinton

Ship: HMS BRINTON
Pennant No: M1114
Laid Down: 30th May 1951
Built by: Cook, Welton and Gemmell Ltd, Beverley. Yard Number 853
Completed: 4th March 1954
Time to Build: 34 Months
Commissioned: 9th March 1954 For 104th Minesweeping Squadron (MSS) based Harwich
Converted to Minehunter: June 1966 to September 1968
Years Fully Operational: 30

Outline of Operational Career:

• 14 May 1954 Joined 10th MSS at Harwich
• 29 Mar 1955 Transferred to 105th MSS based at Harwich
• Jul 1956 Paid Off at Hythe. Refit and reserve.
• 17 Apr 1963 Commissioned for service in Plymouth Command
• May 1966 Paid off for conversion to minehunter
• Oct 1968 Commissioned at Plymouth for 9th MSS
• 28 Jan-15 Apr 1969 Passage to Bahrain round Africa
• 2 Oct-10 Dec 1971 Passage to UK round Africa
• 15 Dec 1971 Joined Fishery Protection Squadron
• 18 Nov 1979 Transferred to 1st MCMS based Rosyth.
• 1 Jan 1984 Transferred to 3rd MCMS based Rosyth
• 26 Oct 1987 Loaned to Fishery Protection Squadron
• 25 Sep 1989 Reverted to 3rd MCMS
• 14 Apr 1991 Transferred to Fishery Protection Squadron
• 21 Sep 1993 Last Ton (with SHERATON) to leave Rosyth

The Banana emblem on her bridge front is her claim to be "Best of the Bunch" and was endorsed by Ffyffes.

Significant Events:

• 11-19 Dec 1974 Wreck survey of HMS VANGUARD in Scapa Flow. (Sunk 9th July 1917 following internal explosion.)
• 15 May 1976 BRINTON acquired ‘Banana’ emblem on bridge.
• 16 Aug- 13 Oct 1984 Took part in Operation HARLING – Mine Clearance inGulf of Suez based ay Adibaya, Egypt.

Paid Off: 5th October 1993
Disposal: Sold to Pounds of Portsmouth January 1998

I started a Shipwrights Apprenticeship at Devonport on 16th May 1966, going “afloat” from the training centre around 1968/69. I remember one of my first deployments was part of a team employed to convert HMS BRINTON's open bridge to enclosed bridge. One of the first I believe. Terry Stephens

VILLAGE

North Norfolk, 21 miles North West of Norwich Name derives from Saxon "Bryn's Farm". Mentioned in Domesday Book, with many listed buildings, but no recorded history.