page_title: HMS Rocket (H92)
section_title: Post-War
hierarchical_section_title: HMS Rocket (H92) / Service / Post-War
caption_attribution_description: The Royal Navy Type 15 frigate HMS Rocket (F193) underway.
context_page_description: HMS Rocket was an R-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service during Second World War. Built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Greenock, Scotland, she was launched in October 1942 and commissioned in August 1943.
context_section_description: In 1946 Rocket was at Chatham and between 1946 and 1948 she was used as an air target ship at Rosyth. In 1949 she was placed into reserve at Portsmouth. Between July 1949 and 1951 she was converted at Devonport Dockyard into a Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F193.
  On 18 May 1951 she was re-commissioned for the 3rd Training Squadron, based in Derry. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In 1954 she returned to reserve at Rosyth, before being re-commissioned the following year.  In November 1956 she returned to reserve at Chatham, then transferred to the reserve at Portsmouth the following year.  On 28 October 1960 she was re-commissioned at Portsmouth and sailed to the Far East to join the 6th Frigate Squadron.
caption: Rocket after her conversion to a Type 15 frigate
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