Beam 28 ft (8.5 m) Speed max 16 knots Length 70 m Displacement 644,100 kg | Draught 8 ft (2.4 m) Launched 12 February 1918 Weight 721.4 tons Draft 2.4 m | |
Fate Sold June 1928 to Alloa Ship Breaking Co Class and type Hunt class minesweeper (1916), Aberdare sub-class Propulsion Yarrow-type boilers, Vertical triple-expansion engines, 2 shafts, 2,200 ihp | ||
HMS Gainsborough was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy ordered towards the end of the First World War. She was initially built as HMS Gorleston, but renamed after the fox hunt of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire before her launch. She was sold in June 1928.
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