HMS Mariner (J380)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Mariner.

Career (United Kingdom)

Name:	HMS Mariner
Builder:	Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company, Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada
Laid down:	26 August 1943
Launched:	9 May 1944
Commissioned:	23 May 1944
Out of service:	Sold to the Burmese Navy on 18 April 1958
Career (Burma)
Name:	Yang Myo Aung
Acquired:	18 April 1958
Fate:	Laid up and deleted in 1982
General characteristics
Class and type:	Algerine-class minesweeper
Displacement:	850 tons
Length:	225 ft (69 m)
Beam:	35 ft 6 in (10.82 m)
Propulsion:	Geared turbines two shafts 2,000 ihp
Complement:	85 men
Armament:	1 x 4" AA gun 4 x 20mm guns (4x1)
Notes:	Pennant number J380

HMS Mariner (J380) was an Algerine-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy. She was built by the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company (Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada), launched on 9 May 1944 and commissioned on 23 May 1944. She was sold to the Burmese Navy on 18 April 1958 and renamed Yan Myo Aung serving until 1982.

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.

Algerine-class minesweeper

Royal Navy

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Royal Canadian Navy

Border Cities · Fort Frances · Kapuskasing · Middlesex · New Liskeard · Oshawa · Portage · Rockcliffe · Sault Ste. Marie · St. Boniface · Wallaceburg · Winnipeg

Post-World War II operators

Belgian Navy	Adrien de Gerlache (ex-Liberty) · De Brouwer (ex-Spanker) · De Moor (ex-Rosario) · Dufour (1951) (ex-Fancy) · Dufour (1959) (ex-Winnipeg) · Georges Lecointe (1950) (ex-Cadmus) · Georges Lecointe (1959) (ex-Wallaceburg) · Van Haverbeke (ex-Ready)

Royal Ceylon Navy	Parakrama (ex-Pickle) · Vijaya (ex-Flying Fish)

South African Navy	Bloemfontein (ex-Rosamund) · Pietermaritzburg (ex-Pelorus)

In 1954 Mariner was on patrol in the noth sea as a fishery protection vessel,checking trawlers nets, and giving aid to any of the trawlers should they need it.