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ASCOT paddle minesweepers (1916)


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Eridge

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate Modification
Ascot T16 297 Ailsa, Troon 1915 26.1.1916 4/1916 sunk 10.11.1918 ordered 9.1915
Eridge T60 320 Clyde SB, Glasgow 1915 23.2.1916 4.1916 sold 3.1922 ordered 9.1915
Chepstow T19   Ayrshire, Irvine 1915 29.2.1916 6/1916 sold 11.1927 ordered 9.1915
Melton T94 316 Hamilton, Glasgow 1915 16.3.1916 6-12/1916 sold 8.1927, 1939-1945 - Auxiliary AA vessel Queen of Thanet ordered 9.1915
Plumpton T32 465 McMillan, Dumbarton 1915 20.3.1916 6/1916 CTL 19.10.1918 ordered 9.1915
Atherstone T09 298 Ailsa, Troon 1915 4.4.1916 6/1916 sold 8.1927, 1939 - 1945 - Auxiliary AA vessel Queen of Kent ordered 9.1915
Croxton T20 459 Ayrshire, Irvine 1915 7.4.1916 6/1916 sold 3.1922 ordered 9.1915
Gatwick T10   Dundee SB 1915 18.4.1916 7/1916 sold 3.1922 ordered 9.1915
Lingfield T24 435 Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley 1915 29.4.1916 6-12/1916 sold 5.1923 ordered 9.1915
Ludlow   192 Goole SB 1915 1.5.1916 9/1916 sunk 29.12.1916 ordered 9.1915
Pontefract TC2 263 Murdoch & Murray, Glasgow 1915 2.5.1916 7.1916 sold 9.1922 ordered 9.1915
Epsom T59 97 George Brown, Greenock 1915 4.5.1916 7.1916 sold 3.1922 ordered 9.1915
Kempton   222 Ferguson, Glasgow 1915 3.6.1916 7/1916 sunk 24.6.1917 ordered 9.1915
Chelmsford T21 299 Ailsa, Troon 1915 14.6.1916 8/1916 sold 11.1927 ordered 9.1915
Doncaster T56 460 Ayrshire, Irvine 1915 15.6.1916 8.1916 sold 3.1922 ordered 9.1915
Newbury T26 313 Inglis, Glasgow 1915 3.7.1916 9.1916 sold 3.1922 ordered 9.1915
Eglinton T02 443 Ayrshire, Irvine 1915 9.9.1916 10.1916 sold 7.1922 ordered 9.1915
Haldon T62 293 Dunlop Bremner, Glasgow 1915 29.3.1916 6/1916 sold 12.1921 ordered 10.1915
Cheltenham T54 276 Ardrossan SB 1915 12.4.1916 7.1916 sold 10.1927 ordered 10.1915
Hurst T66 294 Dunlop Bremner, Glasgow 1915 6.5.1916 7.1916 sold 3.1922 ordered 10.1915
Goodwood T22   Dundee SB 1915 15.6.1916 10.1916 sold 7.1922 ordered 10.1915
Totnes T53 466 McMillan, Dumbarton 1915 17.5.1916 7.1916 sold 3.1922 ordered 1.1916
Sandown T68 295 Dunlop Bremner, Glasgow 1915 6.7.1916 9.1916 sold 3.1922 ordered 1.1916
Redcar   444 Ayrshire, Irvine 1915 31.7.1916 12/1916 sunk 24.6.1917 ordered 1.1916


Technical data


Displacement normal, t810
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

74.9

Breadth, m

17.7 max 8.84 oa

Draught, m

2.13

No of shafts

2 paddle wheels

Machinery

1 DCE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

1500

Max speed, kts

14.5

Fuel, t

coal 156

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, mechanical minesweeping gear

Eridge, Melton: 2 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk II, mechanical minesweeping gear, aircraft flying-off platform

Complement

50



Standard scale images


<i>Kempton</i> 1916
Kempton 1916


Graphics


<i>Eridge</i>
Eridge


Project history

As a result of the success of hired paddlers as minesweepers the Admiralty ordered a design based on Ailsa SB's Glen Usk. They were named after race courses. The design included provision for two seaplanes, to help spot minefields from the air, but only Eridge and Melton had derricks and platforms fitted, and seaplanes were never used. They were completed between April and December 1916.

Modernizations

none.

Naval service

Ascot was torpedoed by German submarine UB67 off the Faeroes 10 November 1918. Kempton was mined on 24 June 1917 while rescuing survivors of Redcar (also mined on the same day) off Dover. Ludlow was mined off the Shipwash Shoal 29 December 1916. Plumpton was beached on the Belgian coast 19 October 1918 after being mined; she was subsequently BU where she lay. Atherstone and Melton both returned to RN service in 1939-45, as AA ships Queen of Kent and Queen of Thanet. During the war the paddle 'sweepers' served with the Auxiliary Patrol, Fishery flag pendants superior to Admiralty Nos 881-904. Post-war they served in the Mine Clearance Service, bearing 'T' pendant numbers.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.