Portuguese-class trawler

HMT Promise in February 1943
Class overview
Name	Portuguese-class naval trawler
Builders	Estaleiros CUF (Lisbon) Arsenal do Alfeite (Lisbon) Estaleiros Mónica (Aveiro)
Operators	Royal Navy Royal Hellenic Navy
Built	1941 - 1943
In commission	1941 - 1946
Completed	12
General characteristics
Class and type	Portuguese
Type	Armed trawler
Displacement	525 tons
Speed	12 kts
Complement	30 men
Armament	1 x 12 pdr AA gun

Portuguese-class vessels of World War II were naval trawlers, built in Portugal for the Royal Navy.

These vessels were built in several Portuguese yards, and offered by Portugal to the Royal Navy. This aid to the British war effort solicited protests by Nazi Germany, since, officially, Portugal was a neutral country.

After the war the ships were sold, most of them becoming mercantile vessels, some under the Portuguese flag. The former HMT Product went to the Royal Hellenic Navy.

Ships in class

• Prong - Launched 1942, mercantile vessel Sjostkerk 1964
• Proof - Launched 1942, sold 1946
• Property - Launched 1942, mercantile vessel Portrush 1946, Property 1947 and Vaagness 1955
• Prophet - Launched 1942, sold 1946
• Protest - Launched 1941, sold 1946
• Prowess - Launched 1943, sold 1946
• Probe - Launched 1942, mercantile vessel Pólo Norte 1946
• Proctor - Launched 1942, mercantile vessel Arrábida 1946
• Prodigal - Launched 1941, sold 1946
• Product - Launched 1941, minesweeper repair ship 1943, Greek Navy Hermes 1946
• Professor - Launched 1942, mercantile vessel Algenib 1946
• Promise - Launched 1941, mercantile vessel Aldebaran 1946

See also

• Isles class trawler
• Tree class trawler
• Shakespearian class trawlers
• Trawlers of the Royal Navy

References

• Naval Trawlers
• P class (uboat.net)