Engineering:HMS Marazion (1919)

Short description: Minesweeper of the Royal Navy

History
United Kingdom
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:	2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines Yarrow boilers 2 × shafts
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

References

• http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/aberdare_class.htm#HMS%20Marazion