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Builder: | Joseph R Eltringham, South Shields |
Launched: | 11 April 1918 |
Fate: | Sold to Alloa Ship Breaking Co, Rosyth |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Hunt-class minesweeper 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 Gretna was a Hunt-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy ordered towards the end of World War I.
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