HMS Cromer (J128)

Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Cromer (J128)
Operator: Royal Navy
Builder: Lobnitz & Co. Ltd.
Launched: 16 May 1940
Commissioned: 4 April 1941
Fate: Sunk by mine
General characteristics
Class and type: Bangor class minesweeper
Displacement: 605 tons
Length: 162 ft (49.4 m)
Beam: 28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught: 8.25 ft (2.51 m)
Propulsion: 2 Admiralty 3-drum water tube boilers, 2 shafts, vertical triple-expansion reciprocating engines, 2,400 ihp (1,790 kW)
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement: 60
Armament:

1 x QF 12-pdr 3 in (76.2 mm) gun

1 x quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) Vickers machine gun Mark III

HMS Cromer was a Bangor class minesweeper commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1941. She was named after the North Norfolk seaside town of the same name.

The ship was mentioned in the first broadcast episode of "An American in England".[1] She was lost in 1942; mined and sunk off Mersa Matruh, Egypt in position 31º26'N, 27º16'E.[2]

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