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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

WWI auxiliary minesweepers

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Screw
Reindeer (M34, T08, T76) 1.4.1897 // 10.1914 Vickers, Barrow 1281 85.3x10.5 20 2VTE 2 - 76/40, sweeps stricken 1.1920
Roedean (ex-Roebuck) (M35) 6.3.1897 // 10.1914 Naval Constr & Armts, Barrow 1281 85.3x10.5 20 2VTE 2 - 76/40, sweeps sunk 13.1.1915
Whitby Abbey (M35, T09, T90) 5.12.1907 // 2.1915 Gray, Hartelepool 1183 77.8x10.3 15 1VTE 2 - 76/40, sweeps stricken 12.1919

100 - 1000 BRT:

Screw: Atalanta (1906, 486, 12.1915 - 6.1919); Clacton (1904, 820, 2-76/40, 10.1914 - 3.8.1916); Folkestone (1903, 496, 2-76/40, 10.1914 - 1.1920); Gazelle (1889, 613, 2-76/40, 10.1914 - 4.1920), Hythe (1905, 509, 2-76/40, 10.1914 - 28.10.1915), Lynn (1889, 609, 2-76/40, 10.1914 - 3.1920); Newmarket (1907, 833, 2-76/40, 10.1914 - 16.7.1917); St. Seiriol (1914, 928, 12.1915 - 25.4.1918)

Paddle: Aiglon (ex-Eagle) (1898, 647, 11.1915 - 7.1920); Albyn (ex-Albion) (1893, 363, 5.1915 - 8.1919); Balmoral (1900, 473, 5.1915 - 6.1919); Belle (1892, 147, 5.1917 - 1.1919); Bickerstaffe (1879, 213, 4.1917 - 4.1919); Bourne (ex-Bournemouth Queen) (1908, 353, 2.1915 - 5.1920); Brighton Queen (1897, 553, 9.1914 - 6.10.1915); Britain (ex-Britannia) (1896, 459, 1.1915 - 4.1919); Caledonia (1889, 244, 4.1917 - 11.1919); Cambridge (ex-Cambria) (1895, 420, 11.1914 - 6.1919); City of Rochester (1904, 235, 6.1917 - 11.1919); Clacton Belle (1890, 458, 8.1915 - 11.1919); Devonia (1905, 520, 1-76/40, 9.1914 - 6.1919); Duchess (ex-Duchess of Fife) (1903, 336, 5.1916 - 9.1919); Duchess of Buccleuch (1915, 450, 7.1915 - 1.1923); Duchess of Fife (1899, 443, 3.1916 - 12.1919); Duchess of Hamilton (1890, 553, 9.1915 - 29.11.1915); Duchess of Kent (1897, 399, 6.1916 - 9.1919); Duchess of Montrose (1902, 322, 5.1915 - 18.3.1917); Duchess of Rothesay (1895, 385, 1-76/40, 10.1915 - 3.1920); Eagle III (1910, 432, 6.1916 - 3.1920); Erin`s Eagle (1912, 633, 11.1915 - 7.2.1919); Fair Maid (1915, 432, 7.1915 - 9.11.1916); Glen Avon (1912, 509, 1-76/40, 11.1914 - 7.1919); Glen Cross (ex-Glen Rosa) (1893, 306, 6.1917 - 9.1919); Glen Rosa (1877, 323, 5.1917 - 5.1919); Glen Usk (1914, 524, 1.1915 - 9.1919); Grenade (ex-Grenadier) (1885, 357, 7.1916 - 10.1919); Greyhound II (1895, 542, 10.1915 - 5.1919); Helper (ex-Sir Francis Drake) (1873, 173, 4.1915 - 5.1915, 12.1917 - 2.1919); Her Majesty (1885, 235, 4.1917 - 6.1919); Isle of Arran (1892, 313, 5.1917 - 3.1920); Junior (ex-Juno) (1898, 592, 1.1915 - 6.1919); Jupiter II (1896, 394, 5.1915 - 5.1920); Kenilworth (1898, 390, 6.1917 - 5.1919); Kylemore (ex-Vulcan) (1897, 319, 11.1915 - 2.1920); Lady Clare (1891, 234, 5.1917 - 12.1918); Lady Evelyn (1900, 320, 4.1917 - 6.1919); Lady Ismay (1911, 495, 11.1914 - 21.12.1915); Lady Moyra (ex-Gwalia) (1905,519, 11.1915 - 7.1919); Lady Rowena (1891, 332, 8.1917 - 2.1919); London Belle (1893, 738, 3.1916 - 5.1919); Lorna Doone (1891, 410, 12.1915 - 12.1919); Marchioness of Breadalbane (1890, 246, 4.1917 - 1.1919); Marchioness of Fife (1890, 246, 10.1915 - 10.1917); Marmion II (1906, 403, 5.1915 - 5.1920); Marsa (ex-Mars) (1902, 317, 9.1916 - 18.11.1917); Melcombe Regis (ex-Lune) (1892, 253, 12.1917 - 5.1919); Mercury (1892, 378, 12.1915 - 1.1920); Monarchy (ex-Monarch) (1888, 315, 5.1917 - 8.1919); Nepaulin (ex-Neptune) (1892, 378, 12.1915 - 20.4.1917); Princess Beatrice (1880, 253, 4.1917 - 6.1919); Queen Empress (1912, 411, 10.1915 - 5.1919); Queen of the North (1895, 590, 3.1916 - 20.7.1917); Ravenswood (1891, 345, 5.1915 - 3.1919); Redgauntlet II (1895, 278, 6.1916 - 4.1919); Royal Pearl (ex-Pearl) (1897, 171, 4.1917 - 5.1919); Royal Ruby (ex-Ruby) (1897, 171, 4.1917 - 5.1919); Royal Sapphire (ex-Sapphire) (1898, 223, 4.1917 - 10.1918); St. Elvies (1896, 567, 3.1915 - 5.1919); St. Trillo (ex-Rhos Trevor) (1876, 164, 4.1917 - 6.1919); Slieve Bearnagh (1894, 383, 2.1915 - 1.1919); Snowdon (1892, 338, 12.1915 - 5.1919); Southend Belle (1896, 570, 4.1916 - 11.1919); Talla (ex-Talisman) (1896, 279, 6.1917 - 10.1919); Verdun (ex-Paris), 2.1917- Verdun II (1888, 804, 3.1916 - 4.1922); Walton Belle (1897, 465, 12.1915 - 5.1919); Waverley (1899, 449, 9.1915 - 7.1920); Way (ex-Waverley) (1885, 240, 5.1917 - 5.1919); Westward Ho, 7.1918- Western Queen (1894, 438, 11.1914 - 5.1919); William Muir (1879, 412, 6.1917 - 5.1919); Yarmouth Belle (1898, 522, 8.1915 - 1.1920)

Project history: merchant vessels converted to minesweepers.

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. Roedean was sunk 13.1.1915 at Longhope after dragging her anchor in a gale and drifting on to the ram-bow of the repair hulk Imperieuse.

Clacton Belle

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