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MINE WARFARE SHIPS

"HILLS" trawlers

Butser 1943

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Birdlip T218 Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 3/1941 9/7/1941 12/1941 sunk 13/6/1944
Bredon T223 Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 7/1941 20/11/1941 4/1942 sunk 8/2/1943
Butser T219 Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 4/1941 29/7/1941 1/1942 sold 4/1946
Duncton T220 Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 5/1941 6/9/1941 2/1942 sold 4/1946
Dunkery T224 Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 7/1941 4/12/1941 5/1942 sold 4/1946
Inkpen T225 Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 8/1941 22/12/1941 6/1942 sold 10/1946
Portsdown T221 Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 5/1941 24/9/1941 3/1942 sold 4/1946
Yestor T222 Cook, Welton & Gemmel, Beverley 1941 21/10/1941 4/1942 sold 4/1946

 

 

Displacement standard, t

750

Displacement full, t

1005

Length, m

55.6

Breadth, m

8.61

Draught, m

4.14 deep load 5.23 maximal

No of shafts

1

Machinery

VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

970

Max speed, kts

12.25

Fuel, t

coal 210

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 QF Mk I HA, 3 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (55)

Sensors  

Complement

35

Ship project history: Project it is developed on the basis of a civil trawler Barnett built in 1937.  ASW trawlers. Some units had composite hull.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Bredon 8/2/1943 was sunk by submarine U521, Birdlip 13/6/1944 by German submarine U547.

Duncton

 

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