HMS Tonbridge

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Career (UK)
Builder:	William Simons & Company, Renfrew
Launched:	5 November 1918
Fate:	Sold 19 May 1928 to Ward, Briton Ferry
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 Tonbridge was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I.

There is evidence of another vessel - a netlayer Tonbridge sunk on 22 August 1941 by aircraft off Yarmouth. It is not recorded in Colledge

[edit] See also

• Tonbridge
• HMS Tonbridge Castle

[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.