Other Ships Named HMS Venturer-- Part 3

**  Motor Minesweeper 261 was the HMS Venturer between 1948 and 1956.

**  HMS Buttington (M1117) was the HMS Venturer in 1962.

**  HMS Hodgeston (M1146) was HMS Venturer between 1961 and 1971.

**  HMS Venturer (1978) was a converted  minesweeper launched in 1972 as the commercial trawler Suffolk Harvester.  She was converted and  commissioned into the Severn RNR in 1978 and was returned to her original owner in 1983.  She was then converted into an oil rig safety/standby vessel.

--Brock-Perry