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HMS Glitter

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Name
  
HMS Glitter

Launched
  
1918

Weight
  
202.2 tons

Builder
  
A. Hall

Length
  
26 m

Name
  
HMS Glitter until 1939, then HMS Raleigh

Builder
  
Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen

Fate
  
Sold 1946, renamed Ocean Raleigh

Fate
  
Sold 1946, renamed Ocean Raleigh

HMS Glitter was an Admiralty steel drifter of the Royal Navy, constructed in 1918. She was one of 38 named vessels of the class that were completed in 1917-1918. The National Maritime Museum records her as having been at Devonport in 1921. She became a base ship in 1939, taking the name HMS Raleigh, and was sold into civilian service as Ocean Raleigh in 1946.

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HMS Glitter Wikipedia


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