Engineering:HMS Marazion (1919)
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Short description: Minesweeper of the Royal Navy
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Name: | HMS Marazion |
Builder: | Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley |
Launched: | 15 April 1919 |
Fate: | Sold in Hong Kong, March 1933 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Hunt-class minesweeper, Aberdare sub-class |
Displacement: | 710 long tons (720 t) |
Length: | 231 ft (70 m) |
Beam: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
Draught: | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
Installed power: | 2,200 ihp (1,600 kW) |
Propulsion: |
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Speed: | 16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h) |
Capacity: | 140 short tons (130 t) coal |
Complement: | 73 men |
Armament: | 1 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) gun, 1 × 76 mm (3.0 in) gun, 2 × twin .303 in (7.7 mm) machine guns |
HMS Marazion was a Hunt-class minesweeper launched by Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley, Yard No 453, on 15 April 1919 and sold in March 1933 in Hong Kong.
She acted as a submarine tender and was present at the sinking of Poseidon in 1931.
See also
- Marazion, Cornwall
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