Displacement 399,200 kg Launched 19 March 1953 Length 47 m | Draught 8.2 ft Construction started 20 January 1953 Length 47 m Beam 8.81 m | |
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Fate sunk at her moorings, scrapped Similar Reaper, Sundowner, Fire‑float Pyronaut, Mincarlo, HMS Gannet | ||
HMS Bronington was a Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 March 1953. This mahogany-hulled minesweeper was one of the last of the "wooden walls" (wooden-hulled naval vessels).
After being decommissioned from service, the ship was purchased in January 1989 by the Bronington Trust, a registered charity, whose patron Charles, Prince of Wales, commanded this vessel in 1976.
For some time, the ship was berthed in the Manchester Ship Canal at Trafford Park, Greater Manchester, England. In 2002, she became part of the collection of the Warship Preservation Trust and moored at Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. Since the closure of the Warship Preservation Trust, she remained in storage, formerly alongside the Rothesay-class frigate HMS Plymouth, at Vittoria Dock, Birkenhead, and latterly in the West Float of Birkenhead Docks.
On 17 March 2016, she sank at her moorings. The decision was taken to scrap HMS Bronington due to her condition.
