HMS Bury (1919)
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 United Kingdom
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| Builder: | Joseph R Eltringham, South Shields |
| Launched: | 17 May 1919 |
| Fate: | Sold 20 January 1923 to J Smith |
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| Class & 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 |
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HMS Bury was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I.
A second HMS Bury served in World War II; it escorted convoy ONS-92 and rescued survivors from ships sunk by Wolf pack Hecht
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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