HMS Ramsey (M110)
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HMS Ramsey (M110) is a Sandown-class
Sandown class minehunter
The Sandown class is a class of minehunter originally built for the British Royal Navy). Sandown-class vessels also serve with the Royal Saudi Navy and the Estonian Navy...

 minehunter
Minehunter
Minehunters are mine countermeasure vessels that actively detect and destroy individual naval mines. Minesweepers, on the other hand, clear mined areas as a whole, without prior detection of mines...

 of the British
United Kingdom
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 Royal Navy
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

. Like other vessels of the Sandown class, the Ramsey is built of glass-reinforced plastic
Glass-reinforced plastic
Fiberglass , is a fiber reinforced polymer made of a plastic matrix reinforced by fine fibers of glass. It is also known as GFK ....

 and other non-magnetic materials so that her hull does not trigger mines as easily as standard warships.
She is the third vessel to bear the name.

On 11 March, 2009, HMS Ramsey and HMS Blyth
HMS Blyth (M111)
HMS Blyth is a Sandown-class minehunter of the British Royal Navy. She is the second vessel to bear the name.The first being a Bangor class minesweeper of the Second World War,pennant number J15....

 returned from a two and a half year deployment in the Middle East to their homeport at HMNB Clyde
HMNB Clyde
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. During this time the crews of those ships were rotated on and off with eight different crews based in the UK. She set sail for another deployment in the Middle East on 11 March, 2011.

Current Commanding Officer is Lieutenant Commander Alex Bush RN.

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