HMS Aberdare

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Career (UK)

Class and type:	Hunt class minesweeper (1916), Aberdare sub-class
Builder:	Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Troon
Laid down:	1 January 1917
Launched:	29 April 1918
Status:	Sold 13 March 1947
General Characteristics
Displacement:	710 tons
Length:	231 feet
Beam:	28 feet
Draught:	8 feet
Propulsion:	Yarrow-type boilers, Vertical triple-expansion engines, 2 shafts, 2,200 ihp
Speed:	max 16 knots
Range:	140 tons coal
Complement:	73 men
Armament:	1x QF 4 inch forward QF 12 pounder aft 2x twin 0.303 inch machine guns

HMS Aberdare (J49) was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I.

Aberdare gives its name to the Admiralty's modified design of Hunt minesweepers, which are known variously as the 'Aberdare class' or 'Aberdare group'.

In 1943 Aberdare was part of the 2nd M/S Flotilla based at Alexandria. During that year the flotilla swept minefields outside Mersa Matruh and other harbours in Libya, and off Malta and the south coast of Sicily. From January to September 1944 the flotilla was engaged in sweeping an inshore channel from Taranto round the heel of Italy and thence up the Adriatic coast as far north as Ancona.