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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

"MILITARY" trawlers (1943 - 1944)

Grenadier 1942

Bombardier 1943

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bombardier T304   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 10/1942 23.1.1943 3.1943 sold 1946
Coldstreamer T337   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 8/1942 10.12.1942 4.1943 sold 1946
Fusilier T305   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 9/1942 23.12.1942 4.1943 sold 4.1946
Grenadier T334   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 6/1942 26.9.1942 2.1943 sold 4.1946
Guardsman T393   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 1/1944 7.6.1944 8.1944 sold 1946
Home Guard T394   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 2/1944 8.7.1944 9.1944 sold 4.1946
Lancer T335   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 7/1942 26.10.1942 2.1943 sold 1946
Royal Marine T395   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 3/1944 22.7.1944 10.1944 sold 4.1946
Sapper T336   Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 8/1942 11.11.1942 3.1943 sold 4.1946

 

Displacement standard, t

830

Displacement full, t

1190

Length, m

58.8

Breadth, m

9.14

Draught, m

4.52 deep load 5.74 maximal

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

12.5

Fuel, t

coal 280

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk XIX, (4 - 6) x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (65)

Fusilier, Lancer, Sapper: 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk XIX, 4 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (65)

Sensors type 271 (some), type 290 (some) radar, type 122 sonar

Complement

40

Project history: Largest trawlers of Royal Navy, the dimensions coming nearer to Flower class corvettes, but costing significantly cheaper. ASW trawlers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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