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ROYAL NAVY - UNITED KINGDOM

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

"LAKE" whalers 

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Buttermere (ex-Kos XXV) FY205 Smiths Dock, South Bank   30/6/1939 10/1939 to USA 3/1942 - 10/1942, sold 5/1946
Ellesmere (ex-Kos XXIV) FY204 Smiths Dock, South Bank   17/6/1939 10/1939 sunk 24/2/1945
Grassmere (ex-Kos XXVIII), 1940 - Wastwater FY239 Smiths Dock, South Bank   31/8/1939 11/1939 sold 5/1946
Thirlmere (ex-Kos XXVI) FY206 Smiths Dock, South Bank   5/7/1939 10/1939 sold 5/1946
Ullswater (ex-Kos XXIX) FY252 Smiths Dock, South Bank   31/8/1939 11/1939 sunk 9/11/1942
Windermere (ex-Kos XXVII) FY207 Smiths Dock, South Bank   21/7/1939 11/1939 sold 1947

 

 

Displacement standard, t

560

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

48.9

Breadth, m

8.46

Draught, m

4.65

No of shafts

1

Machinery

VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

1400

Max speed, kts

13.8

Fuel, t

coal

Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 QF Mk I HA, 1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 1 x 1 - 12.7/62, sweep

Complement

35

Ship project history: Minesweeping whalers, purchased by Admiralty on the stocks.

Modernizations: 1942 - 1943, all survived: - 1 x 1 - 12.7/62; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon

Naval service: Ellesmere was sunk by German submarine U1203 and Ullswater by German MTB.

Ellesmere 1941

 

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