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HMS Croxton

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Name
  
HMS Croxton

Launched
  
7 April 1916

Weight
  
823 tons

Builder
  
Ayrshire Dockyard Co

Displacement
  
810 tons

Length
  
72 m

Draft
  
2.06 m

Namesake
  
Croxton Kerrial, Leicestershire

Fate
  
Sold March 1922 to Ward, Inverkeithing

Class and type
  
Racecourse-class minesweeper

Beam
  
29 ft (8.8 m) (58 ft (18 m) at the paddles)

HMS Croxton was a Racecourse-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy built in 1916. The Racecourse class (also called the Ascot class) comprised 32 paddlewheel coastal minesweeping sloops.

References

HMS Croxton Wikipedia