HMS Caterham (1919)
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History |
United Kingdom
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Builder: |
Bow, McLachlan & Co, Paisley, Scotland |
Launched: |
6 March 1919 |
Fate: |
Sold 26 April 1935 to Cashmore, Newport, Wales |
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
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HMS Caterham was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I. She operated as a tender at the Navigation School. She was decommissioned before the outbreak of the Second World War and was sold in 1935 to Cashmore, of Newport, Monmouthshire to be broken up.
See also
References
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| Belvoir group |
- Belvoir
- Bicester
- Blackmorevale
- Cattistock
- Cotswold
- Cottesmore
- Croome
- Dartmoor
- Garth
- Hambledon
- Heythrop
- Holderness
- Meynell
- Muskerry
- Oakley
- Pytchley
- Quorn
- Southdown
- Tedworth
- Zetland
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| Aberdare group | |
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| Survey ships |
- Beaufort
- Collinson
- Crozier
- Fitzroy
- Flinders
- Kellet
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