Round Table-class trawler

HMS Sir Galahad
Class overview
Builders:
Operators: Royal Navy
Built: 19411942
Completed: 8
Type:
Displacement: 440 long tons (447 t)
Length: 125 ft (38.1 m)
Beam: 23 ft 6 in (7.2 m)
Draught: 13 ft 9 in (4.2 m)
Complement: 35
Armament:

The Round Table class was a small class of trawlers built for the British Royal Navy in 1941/2.[1] The class were built by two Aberdeen shipbuilding firms Hall, Russell & Company and J. Lewis & Sons Ltd.[2]

All were built to a 1936 design, the Star of Orkney,[3] by Hall, Russell & Co but were commissioned as minesweepers.[4] Two of the class, Sir Galahad and Sir Lancelot were converted to danlayers.[1]

Ships

The ships (and assigned pennant numbers[5]) in the class were:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Admiralty Trawlers". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
  2. "Round Table class MS Trawlers". uboat.net. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  3. Conways All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1922-1946, p57: (1980) ISBN 0-85177-146-7
  4. "Sir Galahad". Aberdeen Ships. Aberdeen Built Ships Project. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
  5. Index of ships by pennant numbers (PDF). US Navy Directorate of Naval Intelligence. p. 47. Retrieved 15 March 2010.


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