ESSEQUIBO (1026) class

 1 ESSEQUIBO-class PATROL SHIP (PS) (British RIVER class)

 Name         Pendant     Launched         Commissioned      Status

 ESSEQUIBO    1026        Feb. 7, 1985     March 22, 1986    Active
   (ex-HMS ORWELL, M-2011)

Built as one of 12 deep-sea minesweepers of the British RIVER class for the Royal Navy. Her last employment in the Royal Navy was as an unarmed cadet training ship for the Britannia Naval College. She was decommissioned on July 13, 2000, for disposal. Sold...