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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

WWII sea-going auxiliary AA vessels

Springbank 1941

Tynwald 1942

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Alynbank 15.1.1925 // 4.1940 Harland & Wolff, Govan 5151 128.0(pp)x16.4x 12 2diesels, 8 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 2 - 76/45 sunk as blockship 9.6.1944
Foylebank 12.6.1930 // 3.1940 Harland & Wolff, Belfast 5582 130.1(pp)x17.5x 12 2diesels 8 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 8 - 40/39 sunk 4.7.1940
Palomares 20.10.1937 // 8.1940 Doxford, Pallion 1896 90.1(pp)x13.7x 16 1diesel 6 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 4 - 20/70 fighter direction ship 1943
Pozarica 6.9.1937 // 6.1940 Doxford, Pallion 1893 90.1(pp)x13.7x 16 1diesel 6 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 8 - 20/70 sunk 13.2.1943
Prince Robert (RCN) 3.4.1930 // 6.1943 Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 6892 117.4(pp)x17.4x6.4 21.5 2turbines, oil 1470 10 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 4 - 20/70 sold 10.1946
Springbank 13.4.1926 // 11.1939 Harland & Wolff, Govan 5155 128.1(pp)x16.4x 12 2diesels 8 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 6 - 20/70 sunk 27.9.1941
Tynwald 16.12.1936 // 4.1940 Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow 2376 95.9(pp)x14.1x 21 2turbines, oil 292 6 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 4 - 20/70 sunk 12.11.1942
Ulster Queen 28.3.1929 // 8.1940 Harland & Wolff, Belfast 3791 105.5(pp)x14.1x 18 2diesels, oil 170 6 - 102/45 Mk XVI, 2 - 76/45 fighter direction ship 1943

Project history: AA ships armed as AA "C" class cruisers.

Modernizations: 3.1941, Springbank: + 1 catapult and 1 fighter

1943 - 1944, all survived vessels had up to 6 - 20/70

circa 1944, Prince Robert: + 4 x 1 - 40/56, 5 - 20/70

Naval service:  Springbank was sunk by German submarine U201, Tynwald by Italian submarine Argo or mine. Foylebank and Rozarica were bombed by German aircraft.

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