May 15 - HMS Enterprise to Patrol BGTW During Visit
HMS Enterprise will visit Gibraltar tomorrow. The vessel was built at Appledore in Devon, and launched on 2nd May 2002. She and her sister HMS Echo were designed to carry out a wide range of survey work, including support to submarine and amphibious operations, through the collection of oceanographic and bathymetric (analysis of the ocean, its salinity and sound profile) data.
Enterprise's survey motor boat, SMB Spitfire, is capable of operating independently from the ship, supporting a small group of surveyors who can live and work ashore to carry out large-scale or beach surveys.
Enterprise conducted hydrographic surveys when she visited Gibraltar in 2009/10. During her current visit she will undertake similar survey work in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters around the Eastern Anchorage and some equipment tests in the Alboran Basin.
She will conduct a security patrol of BGTW on her arrival and as she leaves the Rock.
