NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	Launched // Comm.	Builder	Tonnage, BRT	Dimensions, m	Speed, kts	Machinery, Fuel, t	Armament	Fate
Agamemnon	25.4.1929 // 10.1940	Workman Clark, Belfast	13735	140.2 x 18.1	15.5	2diesels, oil 1191	2 - 102/45 Mk V, 2 - 40, 4 - 20, 4 - 13, 530 mines	miscellaneous vessel 1944
Bungaree (RAN)	9.2.1937 // 10.1940	Caledon, Dundee	3155	112.5 x 14.8 x 6.8	11	1VTE+exh turbine, coal 573	2 - 102/40 Mk IV, 1 - 76/40, 467 mines	returned 1946
Hampton (ex-Hampton Ferry)	30.7.1934 // 8.1939	Swan Hunter, Wallsend	2839	105.8 x 18.5	16.5	2turbines, coal 130	1 - 102/40, 2 - 13, 270 mines	to MWT as ferry 7.1940
Holland	16.8.1919 // 1942	P. P. Stuhr, Denmark	1251	72.7(pp)x11.0x	9	1VTE
Kung Wo	1921 // 1.1941	Hong Kong & Wampoa SYd	4636	110.5 x 14.8	15	2VTE, oil	2 - 102/45 BL Mk IX or 2 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, mines	sunk 14.2.1942
Menestheus	6.8.1929 // 12.1939	Caledon, Dundee	13735	140.2 x 18.1	15.5	2diesels, oil 1191	2 - 102/45 Mk V, 2 - 40, 4 - 20, 4 - 13, 410 mines	amenity ship 2.1945
Port Napier	23.4.1940 // 1940	Swan Hunter, Wallsend	9847	159.7 x 21.0	16	2diesels, oil	2 - 102/45 Mk V, 2 - 40, 550 mines	fire 27.11.1940
Port Quebec	17.8.1939 // 1939	Thompson, North Sands	8490	142.6 x 18.1	16	1diesel, oil	2 - 102/45 Mk V, 2 - 40, 4 - 20, 2 - 13, 548 mines	repair ship Deer Sound 1.1945
Princess Victoria	21.4.1939 // 9.1939	Denny, Dumbarton	2197	93.0 x 14.6	19	2diesels, oil	2 - 76/40, 244 mines	sunk 19.5.1940
Shepperton (ex-Shepperton Ferry)	23.10.1934 // 8.1939	Swan Hunter, Wallsend	2839	105.8 x 18.5	16.5	2turbines, coal 130	1 - 102/40, 2 - 13, 270 mines	CTL 5.5.1941
Southern Prince	12.3.1929 // 6.1940	Lithgows, Glasgow	10917	151.2 x 19.7	17	2diesels, oil 1874	2 - 102/45 Mk V, 7 - 20, 562 mines	accommodation ship 10.1944
Teviotbank	1.12.1937 // 9.1939	Redhead, South Shields	5087	130.8 x 17.8	15	1VTE, coal 490	1 - 102/40, 1 - 76/40, 2 - 20, 280 mines	returned 1945

100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels

Alca (1929, 3717, 1 - 102/45, 6 - 20/70, 220 mines, 11.1940 - 1946), Alsey (1932, 416, 2.1940 - 1946), Atreus (1911, 6645, 1 - 76/40, 4 - 20/70, 192 mines, 1939 - 1945), Hong Lam (1928, 104, 11.1941 - ?.5.1943), Kaiwaka (RNZN) (1937, 169, 5.1941 - 1946), Loch Nevis (1934, 600, 11.1940 - 4.1944), Manyeung (1933, 371, 8.1939 - ?.12.1941)

Project history

Merchant vessels requisitioned by Admiralty for minelaying.

Modernizations

1944, Bungaree: - 2 x 1 - 102/40; + 2 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V. Late in the war most ships had 2 40/39-mm pompoms and 4 - 8 20/70-mm Oerlikons (Southern Prince had 14 Oerlikons only).

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. Princess Victoria was mined 19.5.1940. Shepperton and Kung Wo were sunk by aircraft.