HMS Bagshot
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Career (UK) | |
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Builder: | Ardrossan Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company |
Launched: | 23 May 1918 |
Commissioned: | 1 May 1919 |
Renamed: | Temporarily became depot ship Medway II 1 April 1945 to 28 February 1946 |
Fate: | Sold 1947 to Greek shipbreakers; sunk by a mine 1 September 1951 off Corfu while under tow |
Notes: | Pennant number J57/N57 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Hunt class minesweeper (1916), Aberdare sub-class |
Displacement: | 710 tons |
Length: | 231 ft (70 m) |
Beam: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
Draught: | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
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 Bagshot was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I.
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- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.