HMS Forfar (1918)
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Builder | Dundee Shipbuilding Company |
Launched | 20 August 1918 |
Fate | Sold March 1922 to Ward, Inverkeithing |
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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 |
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HMS Forfar was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I. Not to be confused with the auxiliary cruiser HMS Forfar which was torpedoed by U-99 in December 1940.[1]
See also
References
- ^ "The Loss of HMS Forfar". BBC. 3 November 2003. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
- 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.