Index
24 Class
Flower
Q Boat Flowers
Birds
Dance
Later Hunt
Early Hunt
Imp Racecourse
Racecourse
3 Misc Sweepers
Gunboats fitted as Sweepers
 
As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships © for 1919

British Navy - P. W. Minesweepers

Paddle Sweepers - 7 Of Later Group

Page 136

HEXHAM                    Photo, Robertson, Gourock, N.B.

  • BANBURY (Dec., 1917) and HARPENDEN (Feb., 1918), both by Ailsa S.B. Co.
  • HEXHAM (Clyde S.B. Co., Dec., 1917).
  • LANARK (Dec., 1917) and LEWES (Mar., 1918), both by Fleming & Ferguson.
  • SHINCLIFFE (Dunlop, Bremner, Jan., 1918),
  • WETHERBY (Murdoch & Murray, Mar., 1918).
  • Paddle minesweepers, design by Admiralty, adapted from Ailsa Co. design for Atherstone, &c., (v. next page).
  • Completed Jan.- June, 1918.
  • Displacement, 820 tons.
  • Complement. 50 - 52.
  • Dimensions: 235 (p.p.), 249.75 (o.a.) x 29 ft. .25 in. (58 feet outside paddle boxes) x 6.75 - 7 feet.
  • Guns: 1 - 12 pdr. (12 cwt.), 1 - 3 inch AA.
  • Designed I.H.P. 1400 = 15 kts. (actually 1500 = about 14.5 kts.). Machinery: Diagonal compound. Boilers : Cylindrical return tube. Coal 156 tons.

Notes.-All built under Emergency War Programme. Suffer from same defects as Atherstone, &c. (next page). To distinguish, note that foremast is stepped through chart house ; two high ventilators abaft fore funnel ; no derricks abeam of second funnel. Commonly known as the " Improved Racecourse " type.

War Losses.- Nil. Shirley (Dunlop, Bremner) sold out for commercial service as a ferry boat, 1919.

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Source: As extracted from Jane's Fighting Ships for 1919 - Page 136

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