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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

BAFFIN armed trawlers (1942-1944)

Baffin 1945

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
armed trawlers
Anticosti T274   Collingwood SY 10.1941 1.4.1942 10.1942 to UK 6.1945
Baffin T275   Collingwood SY 10.1941 13.4.1942 8.1942 to UK 8.1945
Bowell, 11.1942- Miscou (ex-Campenia) T277   Collingwood SY 12.1941 1.6.1942 10.1942 sold 3.1946
Cailiff T276   Collingwood SY 12.1941 30.4.1942 9.1942 to UK 6.1945
Ironbound T284   Kingston SY 10.1941 14.1.1942 10.1942 to UK 6.1945
Liscomb T285   Kingston SY 7.1941 23.3.1942 9.1942 to UK 6.1945
Magdalen T279   Midland SB 10.1941 3.7.1942 8.1942 to UK 6.1945
Manitoulin T280   Midland SB 11.1941 23.4.1942 9.1942 to UK 6.1945
controlled minelayers
Stonechat     Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull, UK 2.1944 28.8.1944 11.1944 BU 1967
Whitethroat     Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull, UK 5.1944 6.9.1944 12.1944 survey vessel 1960

 

Displacement standard, t

545

Displacement full, t

770

Length, m

50.0

Breadth, m

8.43

Draught, m

3.38 deep load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

850

Max speed, kts

12.25

Fuel, t

coal 183

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (30), mechanical minesweeping gear

minelayers: 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, mines

Complement

35 - 40

Project history: Development of Basset class, intended for minesweeping.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

Lundy after war in an auxiliary role

 

Blackbird 1943

 

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