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HMS Battle (1919)
Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Builder: Dundee Shipbuilding Company
Launched: Cancelled and launched incomplete October 1919
Fate: Sold March 1922 to Ward, Inverkeithing
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 Battle was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I. She was cancelled and launched incomplete.

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