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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

WWII paddle coastal auxiliary AA vessels

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Crested Eagle 5.3.1925 // 3.1940 White, Cowes 1110 91.3(pp)x10.5x 18.5 paddle, VTE   sunk 29.5.1940
Royal Eagle 24.2.1932 // 2.1940 Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 1539 89.0(pp)x11.2x 17.5 paddle, VTE 6- 40/39, 6 - 20/70 returned 5.1946

100 - 1000 BRT:

Aristocrat (1930, 544, 1 - 76/40, 8.1940 - 1945), Balmoral (1900, 441, 1940 - 1943), Bournemouth Queen (1908, 353, 4.1941 - 1.1944), Emperor of India (1906, 534, 1 - 76/40, 1.1940 - 1943), Glen Avon (1912, 509, 1 - 76/40, 5.1942 - 2.9.1944), Glen Usk (1914, 524, 1 - 76/40, 5.1942 - 3.1945), Glenmore (1922, 553, 1 - 76/40, 7.1942 - 1.1945), Goatfell (1934, 624, 1 - 76/40, 6.1941 - 5.1946), Golden Eagle (1909, 793, 1 - 76/40, 1.1940 - 1.1945), Jeannie Deans (1931, 635, 5.1941 - 5.1946), Laguna Belle (1896, 617, 1 - 76/40, 9.1942 - 1943), Lorna Doone (1891, 410, 5.1942 - 9.1943), Plinlimmon (1895, 436, 1 - 76/40, 7.1942 - 1.1944), Princess Elizabeth (1927, 388, 1 - 76/40, 6.1942 - 3.1946), Queen Empress (1942, 411, 1942 - 9.1945), Ravenswood (1891, 391, 8.1941 - 4.1945), Ryde (1937, 603, 1 - 76/40, 2.1942 - 7.1945), Sandown (1934, 684, 1 - 76/40, 7.1942 - 1945), Scawfell (1937, 642, 1 - 76/40, 1941 - 1945), Skiddaw (1896, 483, 1 - 76/40, 8.1942 - 7.1945), Thames Queen (1898, 517, 1 - 76/40, 4.1942 - 2.1947), Thane of Fife (1910, 457, 7.1940 - conversion incomplete), Westward Ho! (1894, 460, 1 - 76/40, 7.1942 - 1.1944), Whippingham (1930, 825, 1 - 76/40, 1942 - 4.1945)

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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