HMS Albury (J41) | |
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Albury in December 1942 | |
Career (UK) | |
Builder: | Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Troon |
Launched: | 21 November 1918 |
Commissioned: | 17 February 1919[1] |
Fate: | Sold 13 March 1947 for scrap Dohmen & Habets, Liege |
Notes: | Pennant number: J41 |
General characteristics | |
Class & 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 that served during both World War I and World War II.
The later Hunt class ships are sometimes referred to as the Albury class.
On 19 January 1942 she was involved in a collision with HMS Sutton, another Hunt-class minesweeper, and took serious damage.[2]
Albury took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, Operation Dynamo.
See also[]
- Albury is the name of a number of places in England
Notes[]
References[]
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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