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| Career (UK) |
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| Name: |
HMS Chelmsford |
| Namesake: |
Chelmsford, Essex |
| Builder: |
Ailsa Shipbuilding Company |
| Launched: |
14 June 1916 |
| Fate: |
Sold to Hughes Bolckow, Blyth on 25 November 1927 |
| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
810 tons |
| Length: |
235 ft (72 m) |
| Beam: |
29 ft (8.8 m) (58 ft (18 m) feet at the paddles) |
| Draught: |
6.75 ft (2.06 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Designed hp 1400. Inclined compound. Cylindrical return tube. |
| Speed: |
max 15 knots |
| Range: |
156 tons coal |
| Complement: |
50 men |
| Armament: |
2 x 12 pdr |
HMS Chelmsford was a Racecourse class minesweeper of the Royal Navy built in 1916. The Racecourse Class (also called the Ascot Class) comprised 32 paddlewheel coastal minesweeping sloops. It was named after Chelmsford in Essex.
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