HMS Battle (1919)

History
United Kingdom
Builder:	Dundee Shipbuilding Company
Launched:	Cancelled and launched incomplete October 1919
Fate:	Sold March 1922 to Ward, Inverkeithing
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 Battle was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I. She was cancelled and launched incomplete.

See also

• Battle, East Sussex

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.