HMS Saltash (J62)
_IWM_SP_109.jpg) Sister ship HMS Belvoir c. 1917–1918 | |
| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Saltash (J62) |
| Ordered: | May 1917 |
| Builder: | Murdoch and Murray |
| Laid down: | 5 September 1917 |
| Launched: | 25 June 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | January 1945 |
| Honours and awards: |
Dunkirk 1940 Normandy 1944 |
| Fate: | Sold for Scrap, July 1947 |
| Status: | Scrapped |
| General characteristics (1939) | |
| Class and type: | Hunt class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 710 long tons (721 t) |
| Length: | 231 ft (70.4 m) |
| Beam: | 28 ft 6 in (8.7 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Installed power: | 2,200 ihp (1,600 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts 2 Vertical triple-expansion steam engines Yarrow water-tube boilers |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Range: | 1,500 nmi (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 74 |
| Armament: | 1 × QF 4 in (102 mm) gun forward 1 × QF 12 pounder aft 2 × .303 inch machine guns |
HMS Saltash (J62) was a Royal Navy Hunt class minesweeper, built by Murdoch and Murray of Port Glasgow, launched 25 June 1918 and served through the last few months of World War I as well as through all of World War II. She was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk, during which, on June 1, 1940, she took on board the crew of HMS Havant (H32) Havant having been heavily damaged by German aircraft after they had successfully evacuated some 3,000 troops themselves.
Saltash later returned to northern France as part of the Normandy landings in 1944. She was decommissioned on 13 March 1947.
HMS Saltash was armed with a 4-inch LA forward and a 12 pounder AA. She was named after the town of Saltash in south-east Cornwall, United Kingdom.
A fictitious HMS Saltash appears in Nicholas Monsarrat's novel of the Royal Navy during World War II, The Cruel Sea.
Notes
References
- Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Commonwealth Warships of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-048-7.
- Winser, John de D. (1999). B.E.F. Ships Before, At and After Dunkirk. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-91-6.
External links
| ||||||||||||||||||