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"FISH" trawlers (BONITO) (1942 - 1943)


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Pollack

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate Modification
Bonito T231   Cochrane, Selby 7/1941 8.10.1941 4.1942 wrecked 25.1.1943 trawlers
Bream T306   Cochrane, Selby 8/1942 10.12.1942 3.1943 sold 1946 trawlers
Grayling T243   Cochrane, Selby 10/1941 4.3.1942 7.1942 sold 1946 trawlers
Grilse T368   Cochrane, Selby 12/1942 6.4.1943 7.1943 sold 6.1946 trawlers
Herring T307   Cochrane, Selby 9/1942 24.12.1942 4.1943 collision 22.4.1943 trawlers
Mullet T311   Cochrane, Selby 5/1942 14.8.1942 11.1942 sold 1946 trawlers
Pollack T347   Cochrane, Selby 12/1942 22.4.1943 7.1943 sold 4.1946 trawlers
Whiting T232   Cochrane, Selby 7/1941 22.10.1941 5.1942 sold 1946 trawlers
Corncrake (ex-Mackerel)     Cochrane, Selby 10/1941 6.3.1942 12.1942 foundered 25.1.1943 controlled minelayers
Redshank (ex-Turbot)     Cochrane, Selby 5/1942 28.8.1942 1.1943 BU 5.1957 controlled minelayers


Technical data


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

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

700

Max speed, kts

11.25

Fuel, t

coal 197

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (40)

Corncrake, Redshank: 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon MK II/IV, 12 mines

Electronic equipment

type 286PU (some) radar, type 122 sonar

Corncrake, Redshank: type 286PU (some) radar

Complement

35



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Project history

Design was 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.