HMS Truro
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Career (UK) | |
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Builder: | William Simons & Company, Renfrew |
Launched: | 16 April 1919 |
Fate: | Sold 19 May 1928 to Ward, Milford Haven |
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 Truro was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I.
[edit] See also
- Truro, Cornwall
- For the Royal Canadian Navy Bangor class minesweeper of World War 2, see HMCS Truro (J268)
[edit] References
- 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.