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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

WWI auxiliary minelayers

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions (LppxB), m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Angora (N40, N04) 1.12.1910 // 2.1915 Denny, Dumbarton 4298 119.1x15.3 17 3turbines 3 - 120/40, 2 - 57, 320 mines stricken 11.1919
Biarritz (P48, N10) 7.12.1914 // 3.1915 Denny, Dumbarton 2495 104.0x12.8 23 2turbines 2 x 1 - 76/40, 180 mines stricken 5.1920
Kinfauns Castle 12.5.1899 // --- Fairfield, Govan 9664 157.1x18.0 16 2VQE   conversion cancelled 2.1919
Old Colony (N62) 26.6.1907 // --- Cramp, Philadelphia, USA 4779 114.3x15.9 22 3turbines   conversion cancelled 11.1918
Orvieto (P53) 6.7.1909 // 1.1915 Workman Clark, Belfast 12130 163.2x19.5 18 2VQE 4 - 120/40, 1 - 47, 600 mines AMC 5.1916
Paris (N59, N79) 12.4.1913 // 11.1914 Denny, Dumbarton 1774 89.5x10.9 25 2turbines 1 x 1 - 102/40, 1 x 1 - 76/40, , 1 x 1 - 57, 140 mines stricken 11.1919
Princess Irene (P47) 20.10.1914 // 1.1915 Denny, Dumbarton 5934 120.5x16.5 23 2turbines, 15000, 585 oil 2 - 120/40, 2 - 76/40, 2 x 1 - 57, 500 mines internal explosion 27.5.1915
Princess Margaret (P46, N82) 24.6.1914 // 12.1914 Denny, Dumbarton 5934 120.5x16.5 23 2turbines, 15000, 585 oil 2 - 120/40, 2 - 76/40, 2 x 1 - 57, 500 mines sold 5.1929
Wahine (Y451, N5A) 25.11.1912 // 7.1916 Denny, Dumbarton 4436 114.3x15.9 21 3turbines 2 - 76/50, 2 - 57, 180 mines stricken 2.1920

less than 1000 BRT:

Gazelle (1889, 609, 2 - 76/40, 50 mines, 5.1915 - 11.1915); Perdita (1910, 543, 1 -76/40, 1 - 57, 100 mines, 8.1915 - 8.1919); Carmania II (1907, 250, 1915 - 1919), King Emperor (1914, 246, 1915 - 1919), Russell II (1906, 246, 24 mines, 1915 - 1920), Scott (, 288, 24 mines, 1915 - 22.10.1915), Shackleton (1913, 288, 24 mines, 4.1915 - 1920), Welbeck (1915, 302, 24 mines, 5.1915 - 1919), Osta (1915, 230, 24 mines, 1917 - 1919), Ostrich II (1903, 244, 24 mines, 6.1916 - 1919), The Norman (1908, 225, 1916 - 1919), Savitri (1917, 212, 24 mines, 1917 - 1919), St. Maurice (1902, 251, 24 mines, 5.1918 - 1921), Pitfour (1916, 227, 24 mines, 1917 - 1919), Erna (1915, 330, 1915 - 1919), Hero (1906, 217, 1915 - 1919), Kate Lewis (1916, 207, 24 mines, 8.1916 - 1939), Strathcoe (1916, 215, 24 mines, 1916 - 1939), Albert Victor (1883, 150, 8 mines, 1918 - 1919), Quince (, 170, 8 mines, 1918 - 1919), America (1891, 244, 10 mines, 1918 - 1919), Ireland (1891, 245, 10 mines, 4.1918 - 1919), Medler (1891, 118, 10 mines, 1918 - 3.1919), Lady Carmichael (1871, 376, 10 mines, 5.1918 - 1919)

Project history: merchant vessels converted to minelayers.

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. Princess Irene was destroyed 27.5.1915 by internal explosion at Sheerness.

Princess Margaret 1919

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