HMS Brereton (M1113)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Brereton
Launched:	14 May 1953
Commissioned:	9 July 1954
Renamed:	HMS St David between 1954 and November 1961
Fate:	Broken up in 1992
General characteristics
Class & type:	Ton-class minesweeper
Displacement:	440 tons
Length:	152 ft (46.3 m)
Beam:	28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught:	8 ft (2.4 m)
Propulsion:	Originally Mirrlees diesel, later Napier Deltic, producing 3,000 shp (2,200 kW) on each of two shafts
Speed:	15 knots (28 km/h)
Armament:	1 × Bofors 40 mm gun 1 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 1 × M2 Browning machine gun

HMS Brereton (M1113)^[1] was a Ton class minesweeper of the Royal Navy.

Launched on 14 May 1953, she was renamed HMS St David in 1954 when she became a tender to the South Wales unit of the Royal Naval Reserve, which later became HMS Flying Fox. She served as such until November 1961, when her named reverted to Brereton.^[2] She continued in service after this, spending some time with the 10th Mine Countermeasures Division of the Royal Naval Reserve, based on Merseyside.^[3] She was broken up in Bruges in 1992.^[4]

Notes

1. Sometimes misnumbered M1112 which was HMS Boulston, e.g. in Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk
2. Colledge. Ships of the Royal Navy. p. 48.
3. Beaver. Modern Royal Navy Warships. p. 87.
4. http://www.oldships.org.uk/SHIPS/SHIP_DETAILS/BRERETON_DETAIL.htm

References

• Beaver, Paul (1987). Modern Royal Navy Warships. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Patrick Stephens. ISBN 0-85059-861-3.
• 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.