HMS Gaddesden (1917)

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History

United Kingdom
Builder	Joseph R Eltringham, South Shields
Launched	30 November 1917
Fate	Sold 4 November 1922
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	1 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) forward QF 76 mm (3.0 in) aft 2 × twin 0.303 inch machine guns

HMS Gaddesden was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy ordered towards the end of World War I. She was commissioned in 1918 under Lieut. G. H. Hughes-Onslow for No.12 Fast Minesweeper Flotilla, on the River Clyde; she paid off in September 1919.

References

Hunt-class minesweeper (1916)
Belvoir group	Belvoir Bicester Blackmorevale Cattistock Cotswold Cottesmore Croome Dartmoor Garth Hambledon Heythrop Holderness Meynell Muskerry Oakley Pytchley Quorn Southdown Tedworth Zetland
Aberdare group	Aberdare Abingdon Albury Alresford Appledore Badminton Bagshot Banchory Barnstaple Battle Blackburn Bloxham Bootle Bradfield Burslem Bury Caerleon Camberley Carstairs Caterham Cheam Clonmel Craigie Cupar Derby Dorking Dundalk Dunoon Elgin Fairfield Fareham Fermoy Faversham Ford Forfar Forres Gaddesden Gainsborough Goole Gretna Harrow Havant Huntley Instow Irvine Kendal Kinross Leamington Longford Lydd Mallaig Malvern Marazion Marlow Mistley Monaghan Munlochy Nailsea Newark Northolt Pangbourne Penarth Petersfield Pontypool Prestatyn Repton Ross Rugby Salford Saltash Saltburn Selkirk Sherborne Shrewsbury Sligo Stafford Stoke Sutton Swindon Tiverton Tonbridge Tralee Tring Truro Wem Wexford Weybourne Widnes Yeovil
Survey ships	Beaufort Collinson Crozier Fitzroy Flinders Kellet
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