HMS Lyme Regis (J193)

Career (United Kingdom)
Name:	Lyme Regis
Ordered:	20 December 1939
Builder:	Lobnitz & Co.
Laid down:	9 September 1941
Launched:	19 March 1942
Commissioned:	5 June 1942
Decommissioned:	1948
Fate:	Scrapped
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 shafts, 9-cylinder diesel, 2,000 bhp (1,500 kW)
Speed:	16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement:	60
Armament:	1 × QF 12-pounder 3 in (76.2 mm) gun 1 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) Vickers machine gun Mark III

HMS Lyme Regis was a Bangor class minesweeper of the British Royal Navy during World War II. Ordered in late 1939, she was launched on 19 March 1942 and commissioned on 5 June 1942. Originally named HMS Sunderland, she was renamed after the original Lyme Regis, her sister ship, was transferred to the Royal Indian Navy and became HMIS Rajputana. Lyme Regis was sold for scrap on 24 August 1948 and was scrapped at Sunderland.^[1]

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