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Goodwin 1917

Ships

Name	Launched // Comm.	Builder	Tonnage, BRT	Dimensions, m	Speed, kts	Machinery, Fuel, t	Armament	Fate
Acton (ex-Harelda), (Gandy, Harelda, Q34, Worrington)	31.7.1901 // 2.1917	W. Richardson, Low Walker	1288	77.7x10.3	11	1VTE	1 - 102/, 4 - 76/	stricken 3.1919
Arvonian (Alastair, Balfame, Bendish, Dorinda, Girdler, USS Santee)	1.8.1905 // 8.1917	Richardson Duck, Thornaby	2794	101.0x14.5	9	1VTE	3 - 102/, 3 - 76/, 4 - 450 TT	stricken 4.1919
Barranca (Echunga, Q3)	27.3.1906 // 4.1916	Stephen, Linthouse	4115	113.4x14.5	13	1VTE	1 - 102/, 2 - 76/	stricken 1.1918
Bracondale (Chagford)	27.7.1903 // 5.1917	Gray, Hartlepool	2094	88.4x12.8	10.5	1VTE		sunk 7.8.1917
Bradford City (Ballistan, Saros)	10.1.1910 // 10.1915	Ropner, Stockton	3683	105.6x15.5	10	1VTE		sunk 16.8.1917
Chevington	21.12.1912 // 10.1915	Readhead, South Shields	3876	111.9x16.4		1VTE		stricken 6.1916
Djerissa (Mallina, Solax, Woking)	8.4.1910 // 12.1916	Gray, Hartlepool	3723	106.7x15.3	10.5	1VTE		stricken 5.1918
Dunclutha (Champney, Stamford)	14.3.1910 // 11.1916	Russell, Glasgow	3973	109.7x15.0	10	1VTE		stricken 6.1918
Dunraven (ex-Boverton) (Boverton)	7.12.1909 // 6.1917	Tyne Iron SB, Willington Quay	3117	100.9x14.7	9	1VTE	1 - 102/, 4 - 76/, 2 - 450 TT	foundered 10.8.1917
Farnborough (ex-Sandyford) (Lodorer, Q5, Sandyford)	5.12.1903 // 10.1915	Priestman, Southwick	3207	99.1x14.6	11	1VTE	5 - 76/, 2 - 57	sold 4.1919
Glendevon	25.10.1907 // 10.1915	Connell, Scotstoun	4169	114.9x15.1	10.5	1VTE		stricken 7.1916
Glenfoyle (Donlevon, Stonecrop)	11.7.1913 // 4.1917	Londonderry	1680	76.2x13.0		1VTE		sunk 18.9.1917
Glenisla	3.1.1878 // 10.1915	Thompson, Dundee	1423	76.2x10.0		1HCE		stricken 3.1916
Goodwin (Ballantral, Moderley, Underwing)	4.1917 // 5.1917	Caledon SB, Dundee	1928	82.4x11.3	12.5	1VTE	3 - 102/	stricken 5.1919
Grantley	6.12.1907 // ---	Osbourne Graham, North Hylton	1869	85.1x12.2	9.5	1VTE		released as unsuitable
Harmonic (Cocksedge, Fairlight, Tricord)	8.12.1904 // 8.1916	Furness Withy, Middleton	2827	99.1x14.3	11	1VTE		stricken 4.1918
Hartside (Dunsany, Fairfax, Trioa)	3.6.1909 // 8.1916	Short, Pallion	2740	95.4x14.3	9	1VTE		stricken 5.1918
Hyanthes (Craven, Lorimer, Ooma)	11.2.1899 // 12.1916	Bartram, South Dock	3427	106.7x14.3	12.5	1VTE		stricken 10.1918
Lady Patricia (Paxton, Q25, Tosca Sverige)	12.1915 // 2.1917	Ardrossan Dock	1372	75.9x11.6		1VTE	1 - 102/, 2 - 76/	sunk 20.5.1917
Laggan (ex-Pladda) (Granmer, Pladda, Q24)	4.10.1907 // 1.1917	Scotts, Greenock	1334	76.9x10.7	13	1VTE	1 - 102/, 2 - 76/	stricken 5.1919
Lowtyne (ex-Slingsby)	28.5.1892 // 6.1918	Ropner, Stockton	3231	98.1x12.7		1VTE		sunk 10.6.1918
Maresfield (Chiswell, Sequax)	25.1.1910 // 3.1917	Thompson, North Sands	4176	111.2x15.7	11	1VTE		stricken 5.1918
Marshfort (ex-Huayna) (Hillcollow, Huayna, Senley)	30.5.1893 // 4.1917	Hall Russell, Aberdeen	1947	79.3x11.1		1VTE	2 - 102/, 2 - 76/	stricken 5.1919
Mavis (ex-Nyroca) (Nyroca, Q26)	14.4.1903 // 1.1917	W. Richardson, Low Walker	1295	77.8x10.3	11	1VTE	1 - 102/, 2 - 76/	stricken 7.1918
Pargust (ex-Vittoria) (Friswell, Pangloss, Snail, Vittoria)	10.6.1907 // 3.1917	Richardson Duck, Thornaby	2817	96.8x14.2	9	1VTE	4 - 76/, 1 - DCT, 4 - 450 TT	loaned to USN 10.1917 - 4.1918, sold 3.1919
Penhallow (Century)	20.5.1913 // 10.1915	Gray, Hartlepool	4318	111.2x15.5	11	1VTE		stricken 5.1917
Penshurst (Manford, Q7)	14.10.1905 // 11.1915	Montrose SB	1191	68.6x10.7		1VTE	1 - 76/, 2 - 57, 2 - 47	sunk 25.12.1917
Perim	30.4.1877 // ---	London & Glasgow, Govan	1328	73.5x9.9		1HCE		released unsuitable
Perugia (Moerari, Q1)	16.5.1901 // 4.1915	Henderson, Meadowside	4348	114.3x14.4	13	1VTE		sunk 5.12.1916
Peveril (Puma, Q36, Stephenson)	10.4.1904 // 2.1915	Grangemouth & Greenock, Grangemouth	1459	79.3x10.7	13	1VTE		stricken 4.1915, again Q-ship 2.1917, sunk 8.11.1917
Ravenstone (Donlevon)	18.7.1905 // 5.1917	Blyth SB, Cowpen Quay	3049	100.7x14.4	8	1VTE		stricken 9.1917
Remembrance (Lammeroo)	9.5.1910 // 10.1915	Thompson, Southwick	3660	105.6x15.5		1VTE		sunk 14.8.1916
Rule (ex-Ouse) (Baryta, Cassor, Ouse, Q35)	21.9.1911 // 2.1917	Dobson, Walker	1004	73.2x10.4	14	1VTE	1 - 102/, 2 - 76/	stricken 5.1919
Starmount (ex-Glenmay) (Glenmay, Graveny, Tring)	5.6.1905 // 6.1917	Ropner, Stockton	2485	94.5x13.4	9	1VTE		stricken 1.1919
Thornhill (Margit, Wellholme, Werribee, Woganella)	27.7.1911 // 11.1915	Short, Pallion	3848	108.4x15.5	8.5	1VTE		stricken 8.1917
Vala (Q8)	9.12.1893 // 8.1915	Ramage & Ferguson, Leith	1016	65.8x9.8		1VCE		sunk 21.8.1917
Warner (Q27)	12.4.1911 // 1.1917	Caledon, Dundee	1273	77.0x10.9	13	1VTE		sunk 13.3.1917
Willow Branch (Bombala, Juggler, Vinetroe)	29.3.1892 // 1.1917	Bartram & Haswell, South Dock	3314	100.0x13.0		1VTE		sunk 25.4.1918
Zylpha (Q6)	3.5.1894 // 9.1915	Thompson, North Sands	2918	95.1x12.5		1VTE		sunk 15.6.1917

100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels

Amy B. Silver (1912, 129, 7.1917 - 11.1917); Baron Rose (ex-Samuel S. Thorp) (Sieux) (1881, 524, 1 - 105/, 2 - 76, 4.1918 - 6.1919); Bayard (Ledger No898, Q20, Syren) (1908, 220, 1 - 76, 1.1917 - 29.3.1917); Brig 1 (ex-Emilia C.) (Emelia C.) (1907, 123, 11.1917 - 10.1918); Brig 2 (ex-Rosina Ferrara) (Rosina Ferrara) (1876, 227, 1 - 102/, 2 - 76, 1.1918 - 11.1918); Brig 3 (ex-Sant` Anna M.) (S. Anna) (1900, 155, 2.1918 - 11.1918); Brig 4 (ex-Vera) (Margaret & Annie, Vera) (1903, 212, 4.1918 - 11.1918); Brig 5 (ex-Salomea K.) (Salomea K.) (1914, 225, 5.1918 - 11.1918); Brig 9 (ex-Kostoula) (Kostoula, Q500, QS9) (1902, 117, 8.1917 - 12.1917); Brig 10 (ex-Helgoland) (Helgoland, Horley, Q17) (1895, 221, 6.1917 - 1.1919); Brig 11 (ex-Gaelic) (Gaelic, Gobo, Q22) (1898, 224, 11.1916 - 3.1919); Brig 12 (ex-Vassiliki) (Vassiliki) (,, 12.1917 - 11.1918); Cymric (Olive) (1893, 226, 1 - 102/, 2 - 76, 3.1918 - 4.1919); Dargle (ex-James J. Bibby) (Bibby, Grabbitt, J. J. Bibby, Peggy, Q29) (1902, 253, 1 - 102/, 2 - 76, 2.1917 - 3.1920); Eilian (Chromium) (1908, 140, 2 - 76, 9.1917 - 2.1919); Eleuthera (ex-Elizabeth) (Elizabeth) (1892, 156, 5.1918 - 2.1919); First Prize (ex-Else) (Else, Prize, Q21) (1901, 227, 111/1916 - 14.8.1917); Fresh Hope (ex-Freshhope) (Edith E. Cummins, Iroquois) (1889, 648, 2 - 102/, 2 - 76, 11.1917 - 6.1919); Glen (ex-Sidney) (Athos, Sidney) (1897, 112, 1 - 76, 2.1917 - 12.1918); Ianthe (Manon) (1910, 212, 5 - 76, 9.1917 - 3.1919); Imogene (ex-Strathendrick) (Dorothy, Impey, Jeanette) (1882, 189, 1 - 102/, 2 - 76, 1 DCT, 2.1918 - 5.1919); Lady Olive (ex-Tees Trader) (Q18) (1913, 701, 1 - 102/, 4 - 76, 11.1916 - 19.2.1917); Margaret Murray (Sarah Jones) (1885, 184, 1 - 102/, 3 - 76, 4.1918 - 10.1919); Mary B. Mitchell (Amaris, Arius, Brine, Can-Calais, Eider, Jeanette, Marie Therese, Mary y Jose, Mitchell, Neptun, Q9) (1892, 227, 1 - 102/, 1 - 76, 4.1916 - 3.1919); Merops (Bellmore, Ilma, Maracaibo, Q28, Steady, Toofa) (1892, 313, 1 - 102/, 2 - 76, 2.1917 - 2.1919); Pinta (1893, 101, 7.1917 - 11.1917); Prince Charles (1905, 373, 8.1915 - 1.1916); Privet (ex-Island Queen) (Alcala, Island Queen, Q19, Swisher) (1916, 803, 1 - 102/, 2 - 76, 11.1916 - 6.1919); Probus (Elikir, Q30, Phady, Thirza) (1865, 179, 2 - 76, 8.1915 - 11.1918); Record Reign (1897, 184, 1 - 102/, 4 - 76, 10.1917 - 12.12.1918); Resolute (Pamela, rentoul) (1869, 229, 1 - 102/, 2 - 76, 1 DCT, 3.1918 - 3.1919); Result (Capulet, Dag, Ledger No.928) (1893, 122, 2 - 76, 2 - 450 TT, 11.1916 - 12.1917); Sarah Colebrooke (Balham, Meryl) (1913, 153, 2 - 76, 5.1917 - 10.1918); Stock Force (Charyce) (1917, 732, 2 - 102/, 2 - 76, 2.1917 - 20.7.1918); Suffolk Coast (1917, 870, 8.1918 - 7.1919), Tay & Tyne (Cheriton, Dundreary, Ledger No.928) (1909, 556, 1 - 102/, 2 - 76, 1 - 356 TT, 6.1917 - 11.1918); Vera Elizabeth (Alma) (,, 9.1917 - 4.1918); Victoria, 10.1918- Surf II (1896, 710, 2 - 76/, 11.1914 - 1.1915, 10.1918 - 12.1918); Viola (Vereker, Violetta) (1872, 168, 1 - 102/, 2 - 76, 8.1918 - 11.1918); Wellholme (Danton) (1916, 113, 9.1917 - 30.1.1918)

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Goodwin 1917

Project history

merchant vessels converted to serve as submarine decoys.

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. Bracondale was sunk 7.8.1917 by German submarine in the Atlantic. Bradford City was sunk 16.8.1917 by enemy submarine in the Straits of Messina. Dunraven was foundered in tow 10.8.1917 in the English Channel after severe damage received 8.8.1917 in prolonged gun action with German submarine UC71 in the Atlantic. Glenfoyle was sunk 18.9.1917 by German submarine in the Atlantic. Lady Patricia was sunk 20.5.1917 by German submarine U46 in the Atlantic. Lowtyne was sunk 10.6.1918 by German submarine off Whitby. Penshurst was sunk 25.12.1917 by German submarine U110 off the Bristol Channel. Perugia was sunk 5.12.1916 by German submarine U63 in the Gulf of Genoa. Peveril was sunk 8.11.1917 by German submarine outside the Straits of Gibraltar. Remembrance was sunk 14.8.1916 by German submarine U38 in the Mediterranean. Vala was sunk 21.8.1917 by German submarine UB54 in the Atlantic. Warner was sunk 13.3.1917 by German submarine U61 W of Ireland. Willow Branch was sunk 25.4.1918 by German submarine E of Cape Verde Islands. Zylpha was sunk 15.6.1917 by enemy submarine SW of Ireland.