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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.