HMS Albury
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Builder: | Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Troon |
| Launched: | 21 November 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 1919 |
| Fate: | Sold 13 March 1947 for scrap Dohmen & Habets, Liege |
| Notes: | Pennant number J41 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Hunt class minesweeper (1916), Aberdare sub-class |
| Displacement: | 710 tons |
| Length: | 231 ft (70 m) |
| Beam: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | Yarrow-type boilers, Vertical triple-expansion engines, 2 shafts, 2,200 ihp |
| Speed: | max 16 knots |
| Range: | 140 tons coal |
| Complement: | 73 men |
| Armament: | 1x QF 4 inch forward QF 12 pounder aft 2x twin 0.303 inch machine guns |
HMS Albury was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I.
The later Hunt class ships are sometimes referred to as the Albury class.
Albury took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, Operation Dynamo.
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[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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