{"id":2785,"date":"2011-03-10T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2011-03-10T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:43:43","slug":"come-and-visit-our-namesake-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2011\/03\/come-and-visit-our-namesake-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Come and Visit Our Namesake Ship!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hms-bangor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2786\" title=\"hms bangor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hms-bangor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a>Have you ever wondered what life is like onboard a real military ship? Well here\u2019s your chance to find out! The HMS Bangor will be arriving at Eisenhower Pier, Bangor on March 16<sup>th <\/sup>for the start of a five day visit.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend\u2019s main event will see HMS Bangor throw down her gangway to welcome the general public from 12 Noon \u2013 5pm on Saturday 19<sup>th<\/sup> March. Admission to the ship will be free so come along with family and friends to marvel at this wonderful vessel and see close-up, what life is really like onboard.<\/p>\n<p>HMS Bangor is a 600 tonne, <a title=\"Sandown class minehunter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandown_class_minehunter\">Sandown Class Minehunter<\/a><strong> <\/strong>commissioned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Navy\">Royal Navy<\/a> and launched by Lady Lisa Spencer in 1999 at Southhampton Docks. She is named after our very own Bangor and is the second Royal Navy vessel to bear the name. She is 52.5m in length and has a max speed of 13 knots.<\/p>\n<p>HMS Bangor is the first navy ship in over 15 years to be closely affiliated to Northern Ireland and has other official affiliations with the town of Bangor, Bangor Combined Cadet Force and Bangor Grammar School. She is also closely affiliated with Clifton Special School, the ship\u2019s adopted charity.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Naval Officer, Commander Don Crosbie said: <em>\u201cWe are really looking forward to being back in our hometown to renew old acquaintances and hopefully make some new ones. We are especially looking forward to a visit from our friends at Clifton School on the Friday and greeting members of the public when they visit the ship on Saturday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Monday March, 21<sup>st<\/sup> the ship will spend the day on the Lough.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what life is like onboard a real military ship? Well here\u2019s your chance to find out! The HMS Bangor will be arriving at Eisenhower Pier, Bangor on March 16th for the start of a five day visit. The weekend\u2019s main event will see HMS Bangor throw down her gangway to welcome &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2011\/03\/come-and-visit-our-namesake-ship\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1403,1402,305,425,240,274,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}