HMS Shoulton (M1182)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Shoulton
Builder:	Montrose Dockyard
Launched:	10 September 1954
Fate:	Sold for scrapping on 2 February 1981
General characteristics
Class & type:	Ton-class minesweeper
Displacement:	440 tons
Length:	152 ft (46 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)
Complement:	33
Armament:	1 × Bofors 40 mm gun 1 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 1 × M2 Browning machine gun

HMS Shoulton (M1182) was a Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy.

She was launched on 10 September 1954. Shoulton was sold for scrapping on 2 February 1981 and was broken up in Blyth.

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.