HMS Kinross

History
Sister ship to HMS Kinross, HMS Aberdare in 1919
United Kingdom
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Yard number:	576
Launched:	4 July 1918
Out of service:	16 June 1919
Fate:	Sunk by mine in the Aegean Sea
General characteristics
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
Armament:	1 × QF 4 inch forward QF 12 pounder aft 2 × twin 0.303 inch machine guns

HMS Kinross was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy.

Kinross was a member of the Admiralty's modified design of Hunt minesweepers, which are known variously as the 'Aberdare class' or 'Aberdare group'.

Loss

At the time of her loss HMS Kinross was serving with the Mediterranean Fast Minesweeper Flotilla.

Casualties

12 members of the ships company were lost, with most casualties incurred in the ships engine & boiler rooms.^[1]

On 16 June 11 men were lost in the sinking.

BEAMES, John, Cook, M 7573
BRACEWELL, Robinson, Chief Engine Room Artificer 1c, 270477
BROOKS, Albert H, Stoker 1c, K 23341
FLOOD, Arthur, Stoker Petty Officer, 292870
JOYCE, Ralph, Stoker 1c, SS 118607
LETHBRIDGE, James A, Stoker 1c, K 14459
MONTE, Emilio, Officer's Steward 2c, 122493
OLIVER, William S, Able Seaman, J 11034
RICHARDS, Edward A, Stoker 1c, K 14474
STONE, Henry T, Stoker 1c, K 17232
WEBBER, Samuel C, Leading Stoker, 183706

On 17 June 1 men died of wounds.

MCCORQUODALE, Duncan, Engine Room Artificer 4c, M 33412

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.

Hunt-class minesweeper (1916)

Belvoir group	Belvoir Bicester Blackmorevale Cattistock Cotswold Cottesmore Croome Dartmoor Garth Hambledon Heythrop Holderness Meynell Muskerry Oakley Pytchley Quorn Southdown Tedworth Zetland

Aberdare group	Aberdare Abingdon Albury Alresford Appledore Badminton Bagshot Banchory Barnstaple Battle Blackburn Bloxham Bootle Bradfield Burslem Bury Caerleon Camberley Carstairs Caterham Cheam Clonmel Craigie Cupar Derby Dorking Dundalk Dunoon Elgin Fairfield Fareham Fermoy Faversham Ford Forfar Forres Gaddesden Gainsborough Goole Gretna Harrow Havant Huntley Instow Irvine Kendal Kinross Leamington Longford Lydd Mallaig Malvern Marazion Marlow Mistley Monaghan Munlochy Nailsea Newark Northolt Pangbourne Penarth Petersfield Pontypool Prestatyn Repton Ross Rugby Salford Saltash Saltburn Selkirk Sherborne Shrewsbury Sligo Stafford Stoke Sutton Swindon Tiverton Tonbridge Tralee Tring Truro Wem Wexford Weybourne Widnes Yeovil

Survey ships	Beaufort Collinson Crozier Fitzroy Flinders Kellet

List of mine countermeasure vessels of the Royal Navy

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