'Echo' Past Meets 'Echo' Present

Sea Cadets aboard the former HMS Echo greet the recently commissioned namesake off Portsmouth.

It is a rare occasion when two ships perpetuating the same illustrious name have a chance meeting on the high seas but just such an incident took place recently when the British Royal Navy''s former , a 160 tonne inshore survey vessel commissioned in 1958, met her modern namesake in ...

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