Another step closer to our return to sea 🌊 💪 At 0300 last Thursday morning, whilst many were still asleep, MERSEY edged her way out of dry dock. We will continue our final maintenance in partnership with BAE Systems, Inc. and A&P Group over the next few weeks ⚙️ 🛠️🔧

Thank you Aggie Weston's for joining us at standeasy. Keeping our crew well fed! 🥓🍳 Hope you enjoyed your tour afterwards even if we aren’t quite at rounds standard due to our ongoing maintenance 😳

Many congrulations to our former Navigator / TweetO who passed the Royal Navy’s most advanced Navigation course and qualified as a Specialist Navigator ⚓️🎉 #RoyalNavy #Navigation

We’ve just completed Dry Dock January 🤪 and can really feel the benefits of a fresh coat of paint as well as a complete overhaul of our propulsion system! Looking forward to a few #wets when we flood up again in February! #DryJanuary #DryDock #RoyalNavy

.HMS MERSEY has had a makeover 🎨

The offshore patrol vessel is getting a new paint job, which harks back to the Navy’s past 🖌️

📺 Watch here 👇

We felt a bit left out… teams from A&P Group and BAE Systems, Inc. continue to work hard getting us ready for a return to operations later this year 💪 HMS Severn HMS Tyne #WesternApproaches #NewYearNewPaintJob #NewYearNewYou

Wishing you all a merry Christmas! We recently held our Christmas raffle… we hope you have better luck with your presents than our Ops Officer! 🧑‍🦲💇‍♂️

Thrilled to have won the #JerseyCup , recognising us as the most efficient #B1OPV , for the second year in a row! We’ve spent over 230 days at sea and visited 10 countries. Now our attention turns to maintenance, ensuring we continue to compete for the cup for the next 5 years!

We will remember them. Whilst alongside Falmouth ship’s company remembered those who have fallen in service. Ship’s company took part in remembrance services on board, in Falmouth, Penryn, Camborne and our affiliated borough of Sefton. Falmouth Town Council (UK) Brigadier Jock Fraser Royal Marines Mayor of Sefton

It’s #NationalEngineeringDay and HMS MERSEY has commenced a dry dock period.

It’s time for our engineers, alongside BAE Systems and A&P, to get to work to deliver MERSEY back on operations at sea next year ⚙️🛠️🌊

HMS MERSEY recently visited Zeebrugge, Belgium. We were delighted to host UK Defence in Belgium & Luxembourg 🇬🇧🇧🇪🇱🇺 on board, whilst alongside vessels from Belgian Navy 🇧🇪 MoD Estonia Deutsche Marine #StrongerTogether #OneNATO 🇧🇪🇪🇪🇩🇪

HMS MERSEY’s last entry into Portsmouth for a while ⚓️ any guesses for what we are signalling from the flags on our yardarms? 🇬🇧

HMS Hibernia hosted staff from Northern and Southern Colleges in NI on HMS MERSEY! They toured the OPV, witnessed OOW manoeuvres, and explored collaboration for future training. 🌊⚓️

#NavyLife

#Collaboration

#RNRNI

Ever grateful to Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity for their support to seagoing units. The charity recently assisted in the purchase of mess deck improvements on board HMS MERSEY, including TVs, games consoles and soft furnishings 🙏📺🎮 #workhardplayhard

Whilst alongside in Hull, HMS MERSEY hosted the Lord Mayor of Kingston upon Hull, Cllr Kalvin Neal and @ABPHull.

Proudly flying Lord Mayor’s flag - representing the historic office of Admiral of the Humber - MERSEY strengthened ties with the UK’s largest cargo port 🇬🇧⚓️🚢

#DailyPhoto HMS MERSEY departing HMNB Portsmouth on a decidedly sunnier day, 30 July 2020 #FromTheArchives