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"HUNT" minesweepers (MUSKERRY) (1917)


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Cattistock

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Belvoir TC0 314 Ailsa, Troon   8.3.1917 3 - 8.1917 sold 7.1922
Bicester TC1 315 Ailsa, Troon   8.6.1917 6 - 8.1917 sold 1.1923
Blackmorevale TC2 279 Ardrossan SB   23.3.1917 3 - 8.1917 sunk 1.5.1918
Cattistock T07 325 Clyde SB, Glasgow   21.2.1917 2 - 8.1917 sold 2.1923
Cotswold TC8 328 Bow McLachlan, Paisley   28.11.1916 1 - 8.1917 sold 1.1923
Cottesmore T6C 329 Bow McLachlan, Paisley   9.2.1917 2 - 8.1917 sold 1.1923
Croome TC4 326 Clyde SB, Glasgow   22.5.1917 5 - 8.1917 sold 7.1922
Dartmoor TC5 296 Dunlop Bremner, Glasgow   30.3.1917 3 - 8.1917 sold 2.1923
Garth TC6 297 Dunlop Bremner, Glasgow   9.5.1917 5 - 8.1917 sold 2.1923
Hambledon TC7 441 Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley   9.3.1917 5.1917 sold 7.1922
Heythrop TC8 442 Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley   4.6.1917 7.1917 sold 7.1922
Holderness TC9 509 Henderson, Glasgow   9.11.1916 1 - 8.1917 sold 8.1924
Meynell T7C 510 Henderson, Glasgow   7.2.1917 2 - 8.1917 sold 11.1922
Muskerry T0C 813 Lobnitz, Renfrew 6/1916 28.11.1916 1/1917 sold 1.1923
Oakley T1C 814 Lobnitz, Renfrew   10.1.1917 1 - 8.1917 sold 1.1923
Pytchley T2C 213 Napier & Miller, Govan   24.3.1917 3 - 8.1917 sold 7.1922
Quorn T3C 214 Napier & Miller, Govan   4.6.1917 6 - 8.1917 sold 9.1922
Southdown T08 596 Simons, Renfrew   7.5.1917 6/1917 sold 12.1926
Tedworth T4C, J32 597 Simons, Renfrew   20.6.1917 6.1917 diving tender 8.1923, radar trials vessel 1936, BU 11.1946
Zetland T5C 272 Murdoch & Murray, Glasgow   1917 9/1917 sold 1.1923


Technical data


Displacement normal, t750
Displacement full, t870
Length, m

70.4
Breadth, m

8.54
Draught, m

2.13
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.

1800
Max speed, kts

16
Fuel, t

coal 140
Endurance, nm(kts)1500(10)
Armament

2 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, mechanical minesweeping gear

many ships: 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II, 1 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, mechanical minesweeping gear
Complement

71


Standard scale images


<i>Bicester</i> 1917
Bicester 1917


Graphics


<i>Cattistock</i>
Cattistock


Project history

The paddle minesweepers ran the risk of catching moored mines in their paddle wheels, and to meet this objection the Admiralty decided early in 1916 that a class of twin-screw vessels was needed. Another complaint against the paddlers was their poor performance in bad weather. Ailsa SB was asked to submit a design, which became the basis for 20 ships ordered in mid-1916. Like the sloops, mercantile practice was followed to a great extent, greatly simplifying construction. They were most successful, being capable of undertaking escort duties as well as minesweeping. They were fitted with 'Quixo' parent davits for handling sweep gear, and were the world's first fleet minesweepers.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Blackmorevale was mined off Montrose 1 May 1918. Tedworth became a diving tender in August 1923; used for radar trials 1936 and sold for BU November 1946.

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