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HMS Forfar (1918)

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Displacement
  
710 tons

Draught
  
8 ft (2.4 m)

Length
  
70 m

Draft
  
2.4 m

Beam
  
28 ft (8.5 m)

Launched
  
20 August 1918

Weight
  
721.4 tons

Fate
  
Sold March 1922 to Ward, Inverkeithing

Class and type
  
Hunt class minesweeper (1916), Aberdare sub-class

Propulsion
  
Yarrow-type boilers, Vertical triple-expansion engines, 2 shafts, 2,200 ihp

Builder
  
Dundee Shipbuilding Company

HMS Forfar was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I. It should not be confused with the auxiliary cruiser HMS Forfar which was torpedoed by U-99 in December 1940.

References

HMS Forfar (1918) Wikipedia