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Port bow view of H.M.S. ST. DAVID entering Cardiff Docks.

The minesweeper H.M.S. ST DAVID arriving at Cardiff, c.1965. This 360 ton Ton class minesweeper was built as the Crichton but bore the name St David from 1961 until 1976 during the period that she was allocated to the south Wales division of the Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. Cambria. (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.)

H.M.S. ST. DAVID. “Ton” class minesweeper (No. M1124) launched 17 May 1953 as H.M.S. CRICHTON by J.S. Doig (Grimsby) Ltd. Renamed H.M.S. CLYDE on completion in May 1954. In 1961 renamed H.M.S. ST. DAVID and attached to Naval Depot H.M.S. CAMBRIA at East Bute Dock, Cardiff. 1976 refitted at Rosyth Dockyard as a Fisheries Protection vessel and renamed H.M.S. CRICHTON. 1980 joined the first Mine Counter Measures Squad (MCM 1). She was broken up in April 1987. (Source - worldnavalship.com)