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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

"FISH" trawlers

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bonito T231 Cochrane, Selby 7/1941 8/10/1941 4/1942 wrecked 25/1/1943
Bream T306 Cochrane, Selby 8/1942 10/12/1942 3/1943 sold 1946
Grayling T243 Cochrane, Selby 10/1941 4/3/1942 7/1942 sold 1946
Grilse T368 Cochrane, Selby 12/1942 6/4/1943 7/1943 sold 6/1946
Herring T307 Cochrane, Selby 9/1942 24/12/1942 4/1943 collision 22/4/1943
Mullet T311 Cochrane, Selby 5/1942 14/8/1942 11/1942 sold 1946
Pollack T347 Cochrane, Selby 12/1942 22/4/1943 7/1943 sold 4/1946
Whiting T232 Cochrane, Selby 7/1941 22/10/1941 5/1942 sold 1946

controlled minelayers

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Corncrake (ex-Mackerel)   Cochrane, Selby 10/1941 6/3/1942 12/1942 foundered 25/1/1943
Redshank (ex-Turbot)   Cochrane, Selby 5/1942 28/8/1942 1/1943 BU 5/1957

 

 

Displacement standard, t

590

Displacement full, t

830

Length, m

49.2

Breadth, m

7.67

Draught, m

4.04 deep load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

700

Max speed, kts

11.25

Fuel, t

coal 197

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 QF Mk I HA, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (40)

Corncrake, Redshank: 1 x 1 - 76/40 QF Mk I HA, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 12 mines

Sensors  

Complement

35

Ship project history: Project is developed on the basis of a civil trawler Gulfoss built in 1929. ASW trawlers. Corncrake and Redshank were completed as controlled minelayers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Herring was lost 22/4/1943 as a result of collision with s/s Cassard. Corncrake was lost in Atlantic during a storm 25/1/1943.

Pollack

 

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