HMS Repton

Ship: HMS REPTON
Pennant No: M1167
Laid Down: 27th January 1956
Built by: Harland & Wolff, Belfast. Yard Number 1528
Completed: 11th December 1957
Time to Build: 23 months
Commissioned: 27th August 1962 for Vernon Training Squadron (VTS) based Portsmouth
Years Fully Operational: 11 years

Outline of Operational Career:

• 25 Sep 62 Joined Vernon Training Squadron
• 1 Oct 62 Vernon Training Squadron renamed 5th MSS
• 1963-65 Day running, Exercises and Visits in N. European Waters
• Sep 1965 Paid off at Portsmouth for Care and Maintenance
• Apr 1967 Towed to Gibraltar for Reserve Fleet
• 5 Apr 71 Commissioned at Port Edgar for 10th MCMS as CLYDE
• 16 Apr 71 Clyde Division RNR based Glasgow
• Aug-Sep 71 To Gibraltar for Exercise MAINHAUL 71
• 1972-1975 RNR Training, Fleet Exercises and Visits
• 1 Jan 76 Reverted to name REPTON. Allocated NW Group RNR
• 1 Jan 78 Reallocated to NE Group 10th MCMS
• 1 Jan 79 Loaned to Fishery Protection Squadron

Significant Events:

• 11-30 May 63 Took part in Operation CLEAR ROAD – Live minesweeping operation off Esjberg, Denmark
• 20 Aug 76 Present at FITTLETON sinking. Guarded wreck site

Paid Off: March 1980
Disposal: 16th July 1982 Sold to Pounds of Portsmouth for breaking up

VILLAGE
In South Derbyshire, 5 miles North of Swadincote, North East of Burton on Trent.

Christianity was introduced to the Midlands at Repton, when King Penda, his family and theigns (nobles) were baptised here.

In 669, St Chad, Bishop of Mercia, moved the seat of his diocese to Lichfield, an action not approved by King Offa, who, never the less, extended the diocese to cover from the Humber to the Thames.

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle records that the Great Heathen Army (Vikings, mainly Danes) overwintered at Repton, which, as "Hreopandune",  is noted as the burial place of King Aethalbald. 

No recent significant history