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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

Canadian-built trawlers, purchased on the stocks (1917-1918)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Arleux (RCN)   22 Canadian Vickers, Montreal, Canada   1918 6/1918 sold 1938
Armentières (RCN)   21 Canadian Vickers, Montreal, Canada   11.8.1917 6/1918 boom gate vessel 1941
Arras (RCN)   23 Canadian Vickers, Montreal, Canada   15.9.1917 7/1918 BU 12.1957
Festubert (RCN)   135 Polson IW, Toronto, Canada   2.8.1917 11/1917 boom gate vessel 9.1939
Givenchy (RCN)   24 Canadian Vickers, Montreal, Canada   15.9.1917 6/1918 sold 9.1952
Loos (RCN)   26 Kingston SB, Canada   27.9.1917 8/1918 BU 1949
Messines (RCN)   137 Polson IW, Toronto, Canada   6.6.1917 11/1917 lightship 1920
St. Eloi (RCN)   138 Polson IW, Toronto, Canada   2.8.1917 11/1917 lightship 1920
St. Julien (RCN)   139 Polson IW, Toronto, Canada   6.6.1917 11/1917 lightship 1920
Thiepval (RCN)   25 Kingston SB, Canada   1918 7/1918 wrecked 27.2.1930
Vimy (RCN)   140 Polson I W, Toronto, Canada   6.6.1917 11/1917 lightship 1920
Ypres (RCN)   136 Polson I W, Toronto, Canada   6.6.1917 11/1917 boom gate vessel 9.1939

 

Displacement normal, t

Arleux, Armentieres, Arras, Givenchy, Loos, Thiepval: 357

Festubert, Messines, St. Eloi, St. Julien, Vimy, Ypres: 320

Displacement full, t

440

Length, m

39.6 pp

Breadth, m

7.13

Draught, m

4.08

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

10.5

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II

Complement

 

Project history: Fishery trawlers purchased by Admiralty on the stocks and completed for RCN. Six were ordered in January 1917 for patrol work, others in 1918. Polson's vessels were built of iron, the others of steel.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Thiepval wrecked 27.2.1930 in Barclay Sound, Vancouver.

Armentieres

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

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