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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

WWII screw coastal auxiliary AA vessels

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Coronation 25.4.1903 // 11.1940 Vickers, Barrow 3044 111.6(pp)x15.3x 10 2VTE 4 - 76/45, 2 - 40/39 sold 9.1947
Empress Queen, 1941- Queen Eagle 29.2.1940 // 10.1940 Ailsa, Troon 1071 85.9(pp)x11.5x 20 2turbines   returned 9.1943
Goodwin (ex-ABV) 4/1917 // 1941 Caledon, Dundee 1570 82.4(pp)x11.3x 12.5 1VTE 1 - 76/40 convoy rescue ship 6.1943
Mona`s Isle (ex-ABV) 11.3.1905 // 10.1940 Denny, Dumbarton 1688 94.9(pp)x12.2x 22 3turbines 2 - 102/40, 1 - 76/40 accommodation ship 3.1942

100 - 1000 BRT:

Conqueror (1911, 900, 1 - 102/40, 1 - 76/40, 9.1939 - 1945)

Project history: coastal auxiliary AA vessels. Usually these ships were armed with 2 - 6 single 40/39-mm pompoms and MGs. Later many ships received 2 - 6 20/70-mm Oerlikons. Some ships had 1 76/40-mm gun and 2 pompoms.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service:  No significant events.

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