On this day, 100 years ago in 1923, the Captain of HMS Vernon, a training hulk in Portsmouth, transferred ashore to be hoisted in the new shore establishment of the same name on the Gunwharf site. Over the years it served as a Diving, Mine Counter-measures and SONAR base until 1986.
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Stores Basin, Sembawang Dockyard, Singapore, 1974. RFA TIDESURGE and RFA TIDESPRING visiting with HMS LONDONDERRY, HMS SYCLLA, HMS DANAE, HMS CHICHESTER, HMAS VENDETTA, HMS HYDRA, HMS ARIADNE, HMS WASPERTON, HMS YARNTON, HMNZS OTAGO,
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