HMS Kinross

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Yard number 576 Beam 28 ft (8.5 m) Launched 4 July 1918 Weight 721.4 tons Draft 2.4 m		Out of service 16 June 1919 Draught 8 ft (2.4 m) Length 70 m Displacement 644,100 kg

Fate Sunk by mine 16 June 1919 in the Aegean Sea Class and type Hunt class minesweeper (1916), Aberdare sub-class Builder Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

HMS Kinross was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy.

Kinross was a member of the Admiralty's modified design of Hunt minesweepers, which are known variously as the 'Aberdare class' or 'Aberdare group'.

Loss

At the time of her loss HMS Kinross was serving with the Mediterranean Fast Minesweeper Flotilla.

12 members of the ships company were lost, with most casualties incurred in the ships engine & boiler rooms.

On 16 June 11 men were lost in the sinking.

BEAMES, John, Cook, M 7573

BRACEWELL, Robinson, Chief Engine Room Artificer 1c, 270477

BROOKS, Albert H, Stoker 1c, K 23341

FLOOD, Arthur, Stoker Petty Officer, 292870

JOYCE, Ralph, Stoker 1c, SS 118607

LETHBRIDGE, James A, Stoker 1c, K 14459

MONTE, Emilio, Officer's Steward 2c, 122493

OLIVER, William S, Able Seaman, J 11034

RICHARDS, Edward A, Stoker 1c, K 14474

STONE, Henry T, Stoker 1c, K 17232

WEBBER, Samuel C, Leading Stoker, 183706

On 17 June 1 man died of wounds.

MCCORQUODALE, Duncan, Engine Room Artificer 4c, M 33412

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