HMS Cuxton

Ship: HMS CUXTON
Pennant No: M1125
Laid Down: 23rd July 1952
Completed: 13th October 1954
Built By: Camper & Nicholson, Southampton.  Yard Number 783
Time to Build: 27 months
Commissioned: October 1975 for Fishery Portction Squadron based Rosyth
Years Fully Operational: 15

Outline of Operational Career:

• 1954-61 At Hythe in Reserve
• May 62-75 At Gibraltar in Reserve (last TON in reserve)
• Oct 75 Commissioned for service in FPS
• Feb 82 Transferred to 10th MCMS for Tay Division RNR
• May 84 10th MCMS Training deployment to Gibraltar
• 1985 Transferred to Northern Ireland Squadron based Faslane.
• Apr 88 Sustained severe hull damage. 5 month repairs in Rosyth.

Significant Events:

• 24 Jun 77 To part in Spithead Review

Paid Off: 1991
Disposal: 16th April 1992. Sold for breaking up at Bruges.

VILLAGE

In Kent, on south bank of river Medway, near Strood and Maidstone.

First occupied 200,000 years ago, 196 stone age hand axes were unearthed nearr ruins of a Roman Villa.

The village was significant in Tudor times, producing a Lord Mayor of London. William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury under King Charles 1 came from Cuxton. He was executed by Puritans due to his loyalty to the Royalist cause.

In 2015 a gang of gun runners were arrested and jailed in what was described as the largest haul in UK history.