Echo Past Meets Echo Present

It is a rare occasion when two ships perpetuating the same illustrious name have a chance meeting on the high seas but just such an incident took place recently when the British Royal Navys former , a 160 tonne inshore survey vessel commissioned in 1958, met her modern namesake in the English Channel.

Sea Cadets aboard the former HMS Echo greet the recently commissioned namesake off Portsmouth.

It is a rare occasion when two ships perpetuating the same illustrious name have a chance meeting on the high seas but just such an incident took place recently when the British Royal Navys former , a 160 tonne inshore survey vessel commissioned in 1958, met her modern namesake in the English Channel.