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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

WWII coastal auxiliary AA vessels

screw

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Coronation 25/4/1903 // 11/1940 Vickers, Barrow 3044 111.6(pp)x15.3x 10 2VTE 4 - 76/45, 2 - 40/39 sold 9/1947
Empress Queen, 1941- Queen Eagle 29/2/1940 // 10/1940 Ailsa, Troon 1071 85.9(pp)x11.5x 20 2turbines   returned 9/1943
Goodwin (ex-ABV) 4/1917 // 1941 Caledon, Dundee 1570 82.4(pp)x11.3x 12.5 1VTE 1 - 76/40 convoy rescue ship 6/1943
Mona`s Isle (ex-ABV) 11/3/1905 // 10/1940 Denny, Dumbarton 1688 94.9(pp)x12.2x 22 3turbines 2 - 102/40, 1 - 76/40 accommodation ship 3/1942

 

 

100 - 1000 BRT:

Conqueror (1911, 900, 1 - 102/40, 1 - 76/40, 9/1939 - 1945)

paddle

more than 1000 BRT:

Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions, m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Crested Eagle 5/3/1925 // 3/1940 White, Cowes 1110 91.3(pp)x10.5x 18.5 paddle, VTE   sunk 29/5/1940
Royal Eagle 24/2/1932 // 2/1940 Cammell Laird, Birkenhead 1539 89.0(pp)x11.2x 17.5 paddle, VTE 6- 40/39, 6 - 20/70 returned 5/1946

100 - 1000 BRT:

Aristocrat (1930, 544, 1 - 76/40, 8/1940 - 1945), Balmoral (1900, 441, 1940 - 1943), Bournemouth Queen (1908, 353, 4/1941 - 1/1944), Emperor of India (1906, 534, 1 - 76/40, 1/1940 - 1943), Glen Avon (1912, 509, 1 - 76/40, 5/1942 - 2/9/1944), Glen Usk (1914, 524, 1 - 76/40, 5/1942 - 3/1945), Glenmore (1922, 553, 1 - 76/40, 7/1942 - 1/1945), Goatfell (1934, 624, 1 - 76/40, 6/1941 - 5/1946), Golden Eagle (1909, 793, 1 - 76/40, 1/1940 - 1/1945), Jeannie Deans (1931, 635, 5/1941 - 5/1946), Laguna Belle (1896, 617, 1 - 76/40, 9/1942 - 1943), Lorna Doone (1891, 410, 5/1942 - 9/1943), Plinlimmon (1895, 436, 1 - 76/40, 7/1942 - 1/1944), Princess Elizabeth (1927, 388, 1 - 76/40, 6/1942 - 3/1946), Queen Empress (1942, 411, 1942 - 9/1945), Ravenswood (1891, 391, 8/1941 - 4/1945), Ryde (1937, 603, 1 - 76/40, 2/1942 - 7/1945), Sandown (1934, 684, 1 - 76/40, 7/1942 - 1945), Scawfell (1937, 642, 1 - 76/40, 1941 - 1945), Skiddaw (1896, 483, 1 - 76/40, 8/1942 - 7/1945), Thames Queen (1898, 517, 1 - 76/40, 4/1942 - 2/1947), Thane of Fife (1910, 457, 7/1940 - conversion incomplete), Westward Ho! (1894, 460, 1 - 76/40, 7/1942 - 1/1944), Whippingham (1930, 825, 1 - 76/40, 1942 - 4/1945)

Ship project history: coastal auxiliary AA vessels. Usually these ships were armed with 2 - 6 single 40/39-mm pompoms and MGs. Later many ships received 2 - 6 20/70-mm Oerlikons. Some ships had 1 76/40-mm gun and 2 pompoms.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service:  No significant events.

 

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