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Fish class trawler

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Name
  
Fish class

Operators
  
Royal Navy

In commission
  
1942–1945

Builders
  
Cochrane & Sons, Selby

Built
  
1940–1943

Completed
  
10

The Fish class of Admiralty trawlers was a small class of trawlers built for the British Royal Navy during the Second World War.

The vessels were intended for use as mine-sweepers and for anti-submarine warfare, and the design was based on a commercial type, the 1929 Gulfoss by Cochrane & Sons, of Selby. The purpose of the order was to make use of specialist mercantile shipyards to provide vessels for war use by adapting commercial designs to Admiralty specifications.

In 1940 the Royal Navy ordered ten such vessels from Cochrane. All saw active service, and two were lost in accidents. Two vessels, Mackerel and Turbot, were converted for use as controlled minelayers, and were renamed Corncrake and Redshank, respectively.

Ships

  • Bonito (T231), completed 15 February 1942
  • Bream (T306), completed 30 March 1943
  • Corncrake (M82) (ex Mackerel), completed 7 December 1942 : foundered 25 January 1943
  • Grayling (T243), completed 4 July 1942
  • Grilse (T368), completed 29 June 1943
  • Herring (T307), completed 10 April 1943: lost 22 April 1943, collision, North Sea
  • Mullet (T311), completed 14 November 1942
  • Pollock (T347), completed 20 July 1943
  • Redshank (M31) (ex Turbot), completed 10 January 1943
  • Whiting (T232), completed 9 March 1942

    • References

    Fish-class trawler Wikipedia
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