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"LAKES" whalers (BUTTERMERE) (1939)


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Ellesmere 1941 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Buttermere (ex-Kos XXV) FY205 1062 Smiths Dock, South Bank   30.6.1939 10.1939 to USA 3.1942 - 10.1942 (Buttermere), sold 5.1946
Ellesmere (ex-Kos XXIV) FY204 1061 Smiths Dock, South Bank   17.6.1939 10.1939 sunk 24.2.1945
Grassmere (ex-Kos XXVIII), 1940 - Wastwater FY239 1065 Smiths Dock, South Bank   31.8.1939 11.1939 sold 5.1946
Thirlmere (ex-Kos XXVI) FY206 1063 Smiths Dock, South Bank   5.7.1939 10.1939 sold 5.1946
Ullswater (ex-Kos XXIX) FY252 1074 Smiths Dock, South Bank   31.8.1939 11.1939 sunk 9.11.1942
Windermere (ex-Kos XXVII) FY207 1064 Smiths Dock, South Bank   21.7.1939 11.1939 sold 1947


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

560

Displacement full, t 
Length, m48.9
Breadth, m8.46
Draught, m4.65
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.1400
Max speed, kts

13.8

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II/V, 1 x 2 - 12.7/62, 1 x 1 - 12.7/62, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement35


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<i>Ellesmere</i> 1941 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Ellesmere 1941 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

Minesweeping whalers, purchased by Admiralty on the stocks.

Modernizations

1942 - 1943, all survived: - 1 x 1 - 12.7/62; + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, type 271 (some), type 290 (some) radars

Naval service

Ellesmere was sunk by German submarine U1203 and Ullswater by German MTB.

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