 HMS Sir Galahad | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders |
|
| Operators |  Royal Navy |
| Built | 1941–1942 |
| Completed | 8 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | |
| Displacement | 440 long tons (447 t) |
| Length | 125 ft (38.1 m) |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 in (7.2 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft 9 in (4.2 m) |
| Complement | 35 |
| Armament |
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The Round Table class was a small class of trawlers built for the British Royal Navy in 1941–1942.[1] The class were built by two Aberdeen shipbuilding firms Hall, Russell & Company and J. Lewis & Sons Ltd.[2]
All were built to a 1936 design, the Star of Orkney,[3] by Hall, Russell & Co but were commissioned as minesweepers.[4] Two of the class, Sir Galahad and Sir Lancelot were converted to danlayers.[1]
Ships
The ships (and assigned pennant numbers)[5] in the class were:
- Sir Agravaine (T230) launched 5 March 1942
- Sir Galahad (T226) launched 18 December 1941
- Sir Gareth (T227) launched 19 January 1942
- Sir Geraint (T240) launched 15 April 1942
- Sir Kay (T241) launched 26 October 1942
- Sir Lamorack (T242) launched 23 November 1942
- Sir Lancelot (T228) launched 4 December 1941
- Sir Tristram (T229) launched 17 January 1942
See also
References
- 1 2 "Admiralty Trawlers". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
- ↑ "Round Table class MS Trawlers". uboat.net. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. 1980. p. 57. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- ↑ "Sir Galahad". Aberdeen Ships. Aberdeen Built Ships Project. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
- ↑ Index of ships by pennant numbers (PDF). US Navy Directorate of Naval Intelligence. p. 47. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
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