HMS Hydra
hospital ship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- HMS Hydra
- IMO number
- 6519340
- MMSI
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- Call sign
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- Flag
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- Vessel type
- hospital ship
- Gross tonnage
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- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 79.3 m
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1966
- Builder
- Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited
- Registered owner
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- Operator
- Royal Navy
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About HMS Hydra
HMS Hydra (pennant number A144) was a Royal Navy deep ocean hydrographic survey vessel, the third of the original three of the Hecla class. The ship was laid down as yard number 2258 on 14 May 1964 at Yarrow Shipbuilders, at Scotstoun on the River Clyde and launched on 14 July 1965 by Mary Lythall, wife of the then Chief Scientist (Royal Navy), Basil W Lythall CB (1919–2001). She was completed and first commissioned on 4 May 1966 and, as the replacement for the survey ship HMS Owen, her commanding officer and many of her ship's company formed the first commission of HMS Hydra. She was decommissioned and sold to the Indonesian Navy in 1986 and renamed KRI Dewa Kembar (Pennant Number 932); she was still in service in 2019.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is HMS Hydra now?
- HMS Hydra has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is HMS Hydra?
- HMS Hydra is a hospital ship, built in 1966 by Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited. The vessel is 79.3 m long.
- Who owns HMS Hydra?
- HMS Hydra is operated by Royal Navy. Ownership data is compiled from public registries and shown free on Seadar.
- Has HMS Hydra been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for HMS Hydra appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).