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A6 armed trawler (1915/1939)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
A6 (ex-Pilote 6, ex-Bugler, ex-Brigadier)     Smiths Dock, South Bank, UK   1.4.1915 5/1915 // 10.1939 abandoned 6.1940

 

Displacement normal, t

303

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

39.6 pp

Breadth, m

7.32

Draught, m

4.04

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 7.9/79

Complement

 

Project history: Purchased by British Admiralty before completion (Military class). In 1920 trawler was purchased by Belgium for pilot service.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: A6 was abandoned by crew in June, 1940 off Saint-Jean-de-Luise. Later fate is unknown.

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