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BASSET trawlers (1935 - 1946)
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Basset 1937
Ships
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate | Modification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basset | T68 | 214 | Robb, Leith | 3/1935 | 28.9.1935 | 11.1935 | sold 9.1947 | British-built |
| Mastiff | T10 | 247 | Robb, Leith | 17.2.1938 | 5.1938 | sunk 20.11.1939 | British-built | |
| Comox (RCN) | J64 | 117 | Burrard, Vancouver, Canada | 2.1938 | 9.8.1938 | 11.1938 | to China 1946 (Sung Ming) | Canadian-built |
| Fundy (RCN) | J68 | 88 | Collingwood, Canada | 1.1938 | 18.6.1938 | 9.1938 | sold 1947 | Canadian-built |
| Gaspé (RCN) | J94 | 8 | Morton, Quebec City, Canada | 1.1938 | 12.8.1938 | 10.1938 | to China 1947 (Sung Li) | Canadian-built |
| Nootka, 1944- Nanoose (RCN) | J35 | 24 | Canadian Yarrow, Esquimalt, Canada | 2.1938 | 26.9.1938 | 12.1938 | to China 1947 (Sung Ling) | Canadian-built |
| Agra (RIM) | T254 | Hooghlie, Calcutta, India | 11.1940 | 18.3.1942 | 4.1942 | sold 1946 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Ahmedabad (RIM) | T264 | Burn, Calcutta, India | 6.1941 | 28.10.1943 | 4.1944 | sold 1947 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Allahabad (RIM) | Hooghlie, Calcutta, India | --- | --- | cancelled 3.1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Ambala (RIM) | Alcock Ashdown, Karachi, India | --- | --- | cancelled 3.1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Amritsar (RIM) | T261 | Garden Reach, Ranchi, India | 8.1941 | 19.12.1941 | 11.1942 | sold 1950 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Bareilly (RIM) | Shalimar, Calcutta, India | --- | --- | cancelled 3.1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Barisal (ex-Sholapur) (RIM) | Burn, Calcutta, India | --- | --- | cancelled 3.1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Baroda (RIM) | T249 | Shalimar, Calcutta, India | 10.1940 | 22.10.1941 | 12.1942 | to Pakistan 1948 (بہاولپور [Bahawalpur]) | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Bannu (RIM) | Shalimar, Calcutta, India | --- | --- | cancelled 3.1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Bay Innaung (Burma govt.) | Irrawadi Flotilla Co, Rangoon, Burma | 8.1941 | --- | --- | destroyed on stocks 3.1942 | Indian- and Burmese-built | ||
| Benares (RIM) | Hooghlie, Calcutta, India | --- | --- | cancelled 3.1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Berar (RIM) | T256 | Hooghlie, Calcutta, India | 12.1940 | 31.7.1942 | 10.1942 | sold 1947 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Calcutta (RIM) | T339 | Hooghlie, Calcutta, India | 1.1941 | 8.3.1943 | 8.1943 | sold 1947 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Cawnpore (RIM) | Burn, Calcutta, India | --- | --- | cancelled 3.1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Chittagong (RIM) | Burn, Calcutta, India | --- | --- | cancelled 3.1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Cochin (ex-Multan) (RIM) | T315 | Burn, Calcutta, India | 1.1943 | 29.12.1943 | 4.1946 | sold 1950 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Cochrane (Burma govt.) | Irrawadi Flotilla Co., Rangoon | 8.1941 | --- | --- | destroyed on stocks 3.1942 | Indian- and Burmese-built | ||
| Cuttack (RIM) | T251 | Burn, Calcutta, India | 7.1941 | 16.6.1943 | 8.1943 | sold 1946 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Dacca (RIM) | Burn, Calcutta, India | --- | --- | cancelled 1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Dinapore (RIM) | Alcock Ashdown, Karachi, India | --- | --- | cancelled 3.1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Elara (Ceylon Govt.) | Irrawadi Flotilla Co., Rangoon, Burma | 12.1941 | --- | --- | destroyed on stocks 3.1942 | Indian- and Burmese-built | ||
| Gaya (RIM) | Burn, Calcutta, India | --- | --- | cancelled 10.1944 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Gemunu (Ceylon govt.) | Irrawadi Flotilla Co., Rangoon, Burma | 8.1941 | --- | --- | destroyed on stocks 3.1942 | Indian- and Burmese-built | ||
| Karachi (RIM) | T262 | Alcock Ashdown, Karachi, India | 3.1941 | 1.12.1941 | 12.1942 | sold 1946 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Kiamari (RIM) | Scindia, India | --- | --- | cancelled 1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Kolaba (ex-Cochin) (RIM) | Alcock Ashdown, Karachi, India | --- | --- | cancelled 3.1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Lahore (RIM) | T253 | Shalimar, Calcutta, India | 11.1940 | 20.12.1941 | 11.1942 | sold 1946 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Lucknow (RIM) | T267 | Alcock Ashdown, Karachi, India | 4.1941 | 3.4.1942 | 4.1946 | sold 1946 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Madura (RIM) | T268 | Garden Reach, Ranchi, India | 6.1941 | 22.12.1942 | 5.1943 | sold 1946 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Mongyr (RIM) | Alcock Ashdown, Karachi, India | --- | --- | cancelled 12.1944 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Multan (ex-Cochin, ex-Kolaba) (RIM) | Scindia, India | 1.1943 | 23.5.1944 | 4.1946 | sold 1946 | Indian- and Burmese-built | ||
| Nagpur (RIM) | Burn, Calcutta, India | 11.3.1944 | --- | sold incomplete | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Nasik (RIM) | T258 | Shalimar, Calcutta, India | 24.5.1944 | 1.1945 | sold 1950 | Indian- and Burmese-built | ||
| Pachmari (RIM) | Burn, Calcutta, India | --- | --- | cancelled 1944 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Patna (RIM) | T255 | Hooghlie, Calcutta, India | 1.1941 | 1.9.1942 | 1.1943 | sold 1946 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Peshawar (RIM) | Alcock Ashdown, Karachi, India | 2.5.1942 | --- | sold incomplete | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Poona (RIM) | T260 | Garden Reach, Ranchi, India | 6.1941 | 2.4.1942 | 12.1942 | sold 1946 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Puri (RIM) | Alcock Ashdown, Karachi, India | --- | --- | cancelled 1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Quetta (ex-Jubbalpore) (RIM) | Alcock Asdown, Karachi, India | --- | --- | cancelled 1.1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Rampur (ex-Barisal) (RIM) | T12 | Burn, Calcutta, India | 7.1941 | 19.7.1941 | 10.1945 | to Pakistan 1948 (لاہور [Lahore]) | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Shillong (RIM) | Burn, Calcutta, India | 6.1941 | 22.9.1942 | 3.1943 | sold 1946 | Indian- and Burmese-built | ||
| Sialkot (RIM) | Alcock Asdown, Karachi, India | 2.1944 | --- | --- | cancelled 1945 | Indian- and Burmese-built | ||
| Sylhet (RIM) | Scindia, India | --- | --- | cancelled 12.1944 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Travancore (RIM) | T312 | Garden Reach, Ranchi, India | 11.1940 | 7.7.1941 | 1.1942 | sold 1.1947 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |
| Trichinopoly (RIM) | Burn, Calcutta, India | --- | --- | cancelled 10.1944 | Indian- and Burmese-built | |||
| Vizagapatam (RIM) | Burn, Calcutta, India | --- | --- | cancelled 10.1944 | Indian- and Burmese-built |
Technical data
| Displacement standard, t | 521 - 560 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | 725 - 775 |
| Length, m | 48.9 - 50.0 |
| Breadth, m | 8.25 - 8.43 |
| Draught, m | 3.23 - 3.40 deep load |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | 1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler |
| Power, h. p. | 850 - 950 |
| Max speed, kts | 12.5 - 13 |
| Fuel, t | coal 180 - 196 Mastiff: oil 129 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) |
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| Armament | 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 4 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (4), mechanical minesweeping gear Indian-built ships completed 1941 - 1942: 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V, 3 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (4), mechanical minesweeping gear Indian-built ships completed 1943 - 1944: 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V, (1 - 3) x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (25), mechanical minesweeping gear |
| Electronic equipment | commissioned 1942-1943: type 286PU (some) radar commissioned 1943-1945: type 271 (some), type 290 (some) radars |
| Complement | 33 Indian-built: 48 |
Graphics
Basset 1937
Amritsar 1946
Comox Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
Project history
Basset was the successful prototype of most of subsequent trawlers built at wartime for RN. Mastiff distinguished by oil-firing. Minesweeping trawlers.
Modernizations
1942 - 1944, Basset: - 1 x 1 - 102/40; + 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V
1942 - 1944, all survived early ships: - 3 x 1 - 7.7/87; + (1 - 3) x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, DC stowage rose up to 25, type 271 (some), type 290 (some) radars
Naval service
Mastiff was mined 20.11.1939.
