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Peterhead

Peterhead sits at the easternmost point in mainland Scotland, Aberdeenshire.

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Today 5 October Prince Charles visiting Peterhead

Today Prince Charles visiting Peterhead to meet with an award-winning seafood company.

Today Prince Charles helicopter landing at the Peterhead links.

Buses in Peterhead been rerouted after Prince Charles helicopter landed at the side of the road.

Prince Charles visiting Peterhead, to meet with an award-winning seafood company.

Charles, known as the Duke of Rothesay in Scotland, visited Amity Fishing Company in Peterhead.

The company is headed by renowned skipper Jimmy Buchan.

Priding itself on quality control from shore to door, the team at Amity provides seafood from Scotland’s coast to people in the UK.

Amity Fish Company taken a Great Taste Award.

https://www.facebook.com/AmityFishCompany/posts/1292719317825351

Charles will then pay a visit to Rora dairy which produces a range of Scottish yogurts on its organic family-run farm in Peterhead.

https://www.facebook.com/roradairy/posts/4734951313216402
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Pics by G. Simpson
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HMS Peterhead minesweeper

New HMS Peterhead minesweeper, Royal Navy during the WW2

HMS Peterhead was a Bangor-class minesweepers built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

HMS Peterhead J59 So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy named after the Scottish town of Peterhead.

She was built by Blyth Shipbuilding Company, of Blyth, Northumberland and launched on 31 October 1940.

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Pics by Stefan Girling

Under the command of Lt Cdr David Croom-Johnson RNVR (later Lord Justice Croom-Johnson), she took part in Operation Neptune, the assault phase of the invasion of Normandy and was mined off Utah Beach on 8 June 1944.

Croom-Johnson was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for Peterhead work in Operation Neptune.

Peterhead was declared a total loss, and was sold for scrapping on 1 January 1948. She was broken up at Hayes, of Pembroke in May 1948.

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