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WWI auxiliary patrol vessels


Ships


Name Launched // Comm. Builder Tonnage, BRT Dimensions (LppxB), m Speed, kts Machinery, Fuel, t Armament Fate
Mourilyan 16.6.1908 // 5.1918 Stephen, Linthouse, UK 1349 67.3x11.0 11.5 2VTE 1 - 120/40, 2-47 stricken 1921


100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


miscellaneous patrol vessels

Coogie (RAN) (ex-Lancashire Witch) (1887, 762, 1-120/40, 5.1918 - 1921); Gannet (RAN) (ex-Penguin) (, 208, 1-76, 7.1918 - 1919)


Project history

merchant vessels converted to armed boarding steamers. They were employed on examination duties at sea for the purpose of enforcing the naval blockade.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Format of date including day/month/year means loss of the vessel. Format of date containing month/year means return to owner or conversion to miscellaneous vessel.