HMS Elgin (J39)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Builder: | William Simons & Company, Renfrew |
| Launched: | 3 March 1919 |
| Fate: | Sold 20 March 1945, broken up King, Gateshead |
| Notes: | Pennant number J39 |
| 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 Elgin was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I. She was originally to be named Troon, but was renamed before launch to avoid possible misunderstandings of having vessels named after coastal locations.
Elgin was mined on 4 May 1944 9 miles east of the Isle of Portland by an acoustic mine. She was towed to Portsmouth and later scrapped.
See also
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 Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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