British naval visit to Hamburg

The British patrol vessel HMS Tyne is visiting the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. HMS Tyne will arrive from Portsmouth on 9 December 2025 and leave the Hanseatic city again on Saturday, 13 December at 14:00. As part of Host Nation Support (HNS), the Hamburg State Command is coordinating and planning the visit of the British naval vessel

The crew will open the Stelling to all interested parties on Thursday 11 December from 13:00 to 17:00 for an open ship. The HMS Tyne belongs to the River class and was commissioned in 2003. She is 80 metres long, 14 metres wide, has a draught of 4.60 metres and displaces 1700 tonnes. Its main tasks are fisheries protection and securing British territorial waters.

Seafaring around the island kingdom

The River-class patrol vessels are the most utilised ships in the fleet in 2025 - they are the constant eyes and ears of the Royal Navy. Just last month, a sister ship, HMS Severn, escorted the Russian corvette "Stoikiy" (2,200 tonnes, project 20380 - Steregushchi class) with its tanker "Yelnya" (Altay class - project 160) through the English Channel and handed it over to French surveillance units at the exit. This year, HMS Tyne has also been activated several times to monitor ships and submarines in UK waters. After seven and a half months, the Portsmouth-based warship has spent more than 3,500 hours (over 145 full days/almost 21 weeks) at sea, travelling 32,000 nautical miles - one and a half times around the globe - although it has rarely left home waters.

Application profile

These ships have a variety of roles: anything to do with homeland defence, supporting mine warfare and diving teams in underwater operations, as well as officer training through navigation training and practice cruises. They play a key role in protecting the UK's critical maritime infrastructure. Teams from the Mine and Diving Threat Exploitation Groups have used the Tyne to launch state-of-the-art autonomous underwater vehicles and conduct detailed underwater surveys, while drone experts have used the ship as a launch pad for small Puma aircraft. This class of vessel is in daily use - from Shetland to Scilly to the Falkland Islands!