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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

WWI commissioned escort ships

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions (LppxB), m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Bayano (MI20) 1917 // 12.1917 Stephen, Linthouse 6788 129.7x16.5 14.5 2VTE 4 - 152/, 2 - 102/, 2 DCT stricken 3.1919
Bostonian (ex-Cambrian) (PA1, MI59) 10.10.1896 // 6.1917 Gray, Hartlepool 5626 137.2x15.0 12 1VTE 3 - 152/, 2 DCT sunk 10.10.1917
Camito (MI21) 17.4.1915 // 2.1918 Stephen, Linthouse 6611 129.9x16.5 14 2VTE 4 - 152/, 2 DCT stricken 3.1919
Carrigan Head (MI22) 9.3.1901 // 8.1917 Workman Clark, Belfast 4201 112.9x14.0 12.5 1VTE 2 - 152/, 2 - 102/, 2 DCT, as Q-ship 1-102/, 2 - 76 supply ship 8.1914-4/1916, Q-ship 6.1916-8/1917, stricken 2.1919
Coronado (MI23) 1.4.1915 // 9.1917 Workman Clark, Belfast 6539 129.7x16.6 14 2VTE 4 - 152/, 2 - 102/, 2 DCT stricken 3.1919
Discoverer (PA3, MI96, MI53) 19.10.1913 // 6.1917 Connell, Scotstoun 5409 125.0x16.0 12 1VTE 4 - 152/, 2 DCT stricken 3.1919
Knight Templar (PA2, MI97, MI54) 10.10.1905 // 5.1917 Connell, Scotstoun 7175 143.3x17.7 11 1VTE 3 - 152/, 2 DCT stricken 2.1919
Lepanto (MI45) 7.9.1915 // 2.1918 Russell, Glasgow 6389 125.0x16.3 10.5 1VTE 2 - 152/, 2 - 102/, 2 DCT stricken 5.1919
Mechanician (PA5, MI98) 9.8.1900 // 6.1917 Workman Clark, Belfast 9044 146.9x17.5 13 2VTE 2 - 152/, 2 - 102/, 2 DCT sunk 20.1.1918
Naneric (ex-Aotea) (MI24) 15.11.1894 // 12.1917 Swan Hunter, Wallsend 5653 131.2x14.9 12 1VTE 2 - 152/, 2 - 102/, 2 DCT stricken 3.1919
Quernmore (PA4, MI99) 9.1898 // 6.1917 Workman Clark, Belfast 7302 146.3x15.9 12.5 1VTE 3 - 152/, 2 DCT sunk 31.7.1917
Sachem (PA0, MI92) 22.6.1893 // 5.1917 Harland & Wolff, Belfast 5204 135.8x14.1 13 1VTE 3 - 152/, 2 DCT stricken 3.1919
Wyncote (ex-Den of Ruthven) (MI27) 27.5.1907 // 8.1917 Connell, Scotstoun 4937 121.9x15.9 12 1VTE 2 - 152/, 2 - 102/, 2 DCT stricken 3.1919

Project history: merchant vessels taken up in 1917-1918 for convoy protection in the Atlantic. Often also termed as convoy escort ships.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service:  Format of date including day/month/year means loss of the vessel. Format of date containing month/year means return to owner or conversion to miscellaneous vessel. Bostonian was sunk 10.10.1917 by German submarine U53 off Start Point. Mechanician was sunk 20.1.1918 by German submarine UB35 off St. Catherine`s Point in the English Channel. Quernmore was sunk 31.7.1917 by German submarine U82 off Tory Island.

Bayano

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