Talk:HMS Saintes (D84)

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I have made one or two changes to the article on HMS Saintes.

I have, in particular, removed the reference to HMS Saintes becoming gunnery training ship for the naval gunnery school at HMS Excellent (Whale Island) in 1953. For some reason this has become a popular myth but is completely untrue.

I have also filled in the missing statistics. Apart from length and beam there are slightly different figures for some other statistics, crew numbers for instance, which varied as the peace time complement was smaller than the war time complement and varied from time to time anyway.

HMS Saintes had a full and varied career, acting as royal escort during several royal tours. She was, in fact, the first ship to act as escort to Her Majesty and the brand new Royal Yacht Britannia at the end of the Queens first royal tour. She deployed to the Persian Gulf during the Kuwait crisis of 1961, shortly thereafter deploying to the Arctic to replace a broken down (sabotaged) Daring class ship during the first cod war. From one extreme to another.