HMS Wolverton

Ship: HMS WOLVERTON
Pennant No: M1193/P1093
Laid Down: 28th September 1954
Built by: Montrose Shipyard
Completed: 25th March 1958
Time to Build: 42 months
Commissioned: 5th September 1958 for 100th Minesweeping Squadron (MSS) based Portsmouth
Years Fully Operational: 26 years
Conversion: to Patrol Craft in Rosyth Dockyard 29th August to 24th November 1971

Outline of Operational Career:

• 16-26 Sep 58 Deployment to Malta for Cyprus Patrol
• 9 Oct-28 Nov 58 First (and only) Cyprus Patrol
• 1-11 Dec 58 Passage to UK
• 1959 -1964 Exercises and Visits in North European Waters
• 2 Mar-4 Apr 60 Deployment to Malta for Exercises
• 1 Oct 62 100th MSS renamed 2nd MSS
• 9 Oct 64 Paid off Port Edgar. Crew to man Ton in Far East
• 9 Jun 65 Recommissioned for 5th MSS based VERNON
• 13 May 66 Transferred to 1st MCMS based Port Edgar
• 1966 -1971 Exercises, Trials and Visits in European Waters
• 29 Aug-24 Nov 71 Conversion to Patrol Craft in Rosyth Dockyard
• 12 Jan-28 Apr 72 Passage to Hong Kong Round Africa for 6th PCS
• 1972-1984 Local Patrols, Exercises & Visits in South China Sea
• 1 Jun 73 6th PCS renamed Hong Kong Dragon Squadron

Significant Events:

• 13-28 May 1963 Took part in Op ‘CLEAR ROAD’ based Esjberg
• 17 Jun-10 Jul 63 Took part in Op ‘CABLEWAY’ based Den Helder
• 16-22 Sep 63 Took part in Op ‘ICE SCOT’ based Iceland
• 1-30 May 68 Took part in Op ‘ NEW BROOM’ based Den Helder
• 27 Jun–14 Nov 69 Took part in ‘Meet the Navy’ Visits to UK Ports
• 4 May 75 Present for HM The Queen’s Visit to HMS TAMAR
• 15 May-6 Jun 81 Visits to South Korea and Japan
• 6 Mar 83 Grounded in Hong Kong Harbour. Propellor damage

Paid Off: September 1985 for local sale and conversion for ‘further use’

Last C.O. Lt Cdr Tim Curd, TCA member and explosives guru

VILLAGE

Constituant town of Milton Keynes (1967).

Name derives from Saxon "Wulfhere's Settlement".

Mentioned in Domesday Book as Old Wulftun 

Remains of Norman Motte and Bailey castle.

Clearance of peasants in 17th century by enclosures by Lords of the Manor, depriving them of common grazing land for their cattle, probably to give the land over to sheep and profits from the trade in wool.

New settlement based on arrival of the railway in mid-19th century.

Locomotive repair depot until 1871

In World War 2 the former railway works produced parts for rifles, wings for bombers, Horsa gliders and army ambulances.

Now an active urban community.