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HMS Gaddesden (1917)

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Fate
  
Sold 4 November 1922

Beam
  
28 ft (8.5 m)

Launched
  
30 November 1917

Weight
  
721.4 tons

Displacement
  
710 tons

Draught
  
8 ft (2.4 m)

Length
  
70 m

Draft
  
2.4 m

Builder
  
Joseph R Eltringham, South Shields

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

HMS Gaddesden was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy ordered towards the end of World War I. She was commissioned in 1918 under Lieut. G. H. Hughes-Onslow for No.12 Fast Minesweeper Flotilla, on the River Clyde; she paid off in September 1919.

References

HMS Gaddesden (1917) Wikipedia