HMS Badminton

Ship: HMS BADMINTON
Pennant No: M1149
Laid Down: 18th March 1953
Built By: Camper & Nicholson, Gosport. Yard Number 792
Completed: 5th July 1955
Time To Build: 28 Months
Commissioned: 16th July 1955 for 108th MSS
Years Fully Operational: 2.5 yrs

Outline Of Operational Career:

• 9-19 Sep 55 Passage to Malta with 108th MSS
• 26 Sep 55 Passage to Cyprus with 108th MSS
• 7 Oct - 16 Nov 55 First Cyprus Patrol (31 days)
• 18 Dec 55 - 31 Jan 56 Second Cyprus Patrol (40 days)
• 4 Mar - 7 Apr 56 Third Cyprus Patrol (31 days)
• 28 Aug -3rd Oct 56Fourth Cyprus Patrol (36 days)
• 19 Oct– 3 Nov 56 – Passage to UK
• 11 Nov 56 Paid Off at Hythe, then Reserve Devonport
• 1957 – 1964 Reserve at Devonport
• 29 May 64 Recommissioned for Local Service – Target Towing & ARK ROYAL Planeguard
• 10 Jul 64 Joined VERNON squadron (NURTON crew)

Paid Off: May 1965

Disposal: 14 Apr 70 sold to C H Rugg for breaking up at Bruges

VILLAGE

 A rural community near bath in South Gloucestershire.

Mentioned in Domesday Book

The Badminton Horse Trials are held in May each year.

Field Marshal Lord Raglan, ADC to Wellington at Waterloo and Comander io British troops during the Crimean War, was born, raised and is buried in Badminton,

During World War 2, Queen Mary, widow of King George V,  stayed in badminton house, home to her niece, Mary, Duchess of Beaufort. A detachment from the Brigade of Guards provided a bodyguard for the Dowager Queen until the risk of invasion and her piossible capture by the Germans receded. N.B. Queen Mary, known as the Princess of Teck, had been born and raised in Germany and spoke the language.