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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

"HILLS" trawlers (1941 - 1942)

Butser 1943

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Birdlip T218   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 3/1941 9.7.1941 12.1941 sunk 13.6.1944
Bredon T223   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 7/1941 20.11.1941 4.1942 sunk 8.2.1943
Butser T219   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 4/1941 29.7.1941 1.1942 sold 4.1946
Duncton T220   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 5/1941 6.9.1941 2.1942 sold 4.1946
Dunkery T224   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 7/1941 4.12.1941 5.1942 sold 4.1946
Inkpen T225   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 8/1941 22.12.1941 6.1942 sold 10.1946
Portsdown T221   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 5/1941 24.9.1941 3.1942 sold 4.1946
Yestor T222   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 1941 21.10.1941 4.1942 sold 4.1946

 

Displacement standard, t

750

Displacement full, t

1005

Length, m

55.6

Breadth, m

8.61

Draught, m

4.14 deep load 5.23 maximal

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

970

Max speed, kts

12.25

Fuel, t

coal 210

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (55)

Sensors type 122 sonar

Complement

35

Project history: Project it is developed on the basis of a civil trawler Barnett built in 1937.  ASW trawlers. Some units had composite hull.

Modernizations: 1943-1944, some: + type 271 (some), type 290 (some) radars

Naval service: Bredon 8.2.1943 was sunk by submarine U521, Birdlip 13.6.1944 by German submarine U547.

Duncton

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