HMS Bluebell (1915)
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Bluebell.
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Bluebell |
| Builder: | Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Greenock |
| Launched: | 24 July 1915 |
| Fate: | Sold on 26 May 1930 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Acacia-class minesweeping sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,200 tons |
| Length: | |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
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| Speed: | Designed for 1,400 or 1,800 hp to make 17 knots (31 km/h), but actually required about 2200 I.H.P. for this speed |
| Range: | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) with max. 250 tons of coal |
| Complement: | 77 men |
| Armament: | Designed to mount 2 × 12-pounder (76 mm) guns and 2 × 3-pounder (47 mm) AA guns, but with wide variations |
HMS Bluebell was an Acacia-class minesweeping sloop of the Royal Navy launched on 24 July 1915.[1][2]
The merchant vessel SS Libau (masquerading under the name Aud) was intercepted by Bluebell as she carried arms to Ireland for the Easter Rising in 1916.[3]
Fate
She was sold in May 1930.[1][2]
References
- 1 2 "Acacia class sloops, 1915". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- 1 2 "HMS Bluebell". clydesite.co.uk. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ↑ "Black night in Ballykissane". The Kingdom. 2006-04-13. Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
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