HMS TRUMPETER is the coastal patrol craft of Cambridge URNU. She is the focus of the unit with sea training conducted onboard during sea weekends and deployments, with up to 12 students and 5 regular ship's company accommodated for.

She is one of 14 P2000 craft attached to the University Royal Naval Units in the 1st Patrol Boat Squadron (1PBS) and the only Royal Navy ship to be based in East Anglia.

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The 2nd HMS Trumpeter

History of HMS TRUMPETER
The current HMS Trumpeter is the fourth ship of this name to see service with the Royal Navy. She belongs to the P2000 or 'Archer' class of coastal training craft and is one of 14 such vessels in service with the Royal Naval Reserve. Her hull was built by Watercraft at Shoreham and her fitting out was completed by Vosper-Thorneycroft at Hythe. She was commissioned on 5 November 1988 and was initially used by the Southampton Division of the Royal Naval Reserve as a junior officer seamanship training ship. In February 1991 she was allocated as one of two P2000 craft used by the RN's Gibraltar Squadron as a Gibraltar Guard Ship. In April 2003 she returned to the UK and remained as the training craft of Bristol University Royal Naval Unit till September 2010. From then it is part of Cambridge University Royal Naval Unit.