Shakespearian class trawlers
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The Shakespearian class were anti-submarine naval trawler
Naval trawler
A naval trawler is a vessel built along the lines of a fishing trawler but fitted out for naval purposes. Naval trawlers were widely used during the First and Second world wars. Fishing trawlers were particularly suited for many naval requirements because they were robust boats designed to work...
s which served in Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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. Ships in this class had a displacement of 545 tons, a top speed of 12 knots, a crew of 40 men, and armament of one 12-pounder AA gun, three 20 mm Oerlikon
Oerlikon Contraves
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AA guns and 30 depth charges. They were nearly identical to the Isles class trawler
Isles class trawler
The Isles class trawlers were a class of naval trawler used by the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal New Zealand Navy during World War II....
s, of which they are usually considered a subclass.
Three of the Shakespearian class trawlers were war losses: Coriolanus, Horatio and Laertes. One (Othello) was transferred to Italy in 1946, and another (Rosalind) to Kenya, also in 1946. By the end of that year, only Hamlet and Macbeth remained in service with the Royal Navy; both were sold in 1947.
Ships in class
- Built by Cochrane & Sons, Selby, UK
- - Launched 1940, sold 1946
- - Launched 1940, war loss 1945
- - Launched 1940, sold 1946
- Built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley, UK
- - Launched 24 July 1940, sold 1947
- - Launched 1940, war loss 1943
- HMT Juliet (T136)MV PlassyMV Plassy, or Plassey, was a steam trawler launched in late 1940 and named HMS Juliet in 1941. She was renamed Peterjon and converted to a cargo vessel in 1947. She was acquired by the Limerick Steamship Company in 1951 and renamed Plassy . On her final voyage she was sailing through Galway Bay...
- Launched 1940, sold 1946 - - Launched 1940, war loss 1942
- Built by Goole Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Goole, UK
- - Launched 3 October 1940, sold 1947
- - Launched 1940, sold 1946
- Built by Hall, Russell & Company, Ltd., Aberdeen, UK
- - Launched 1941, transferred to Italy 1946 as DR 310
- Built by A. & J. Inglis, Ltd., Glasgow, UK
- - Launched 1941, sold 1946
- - Launched 3 May 1941, transferred to Kenya 1946, joined Royal East African NavyRoyal East African NavyRoyal East African Navy was a naval force of the former British colonies of Kenya, Tanganyika , Uganda and Zanzibar. Formed in 1952 to replace Royal Navy's Naval Volunteer Reserves in Zanzibar and Tanganyika and was disbanded in 1962 with the independence of Tanganyika from Britain...
1952, redeployed to Madagascar 1964
See also
- Isles class trawlerIsles class trawlerThe Isles class trawlers were a class of naval trawler used by the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal New Zealand Navy during World War II....
- Operation Dervish ConvoyDervish ConvoyOperation Dervish was the first of the Arctic Convoys of World War II by which the Western Allies supplied material aid to the Soviet Union in its fight with Nazi Germany. The convoy sailed from Hvalfiourdur, Iceland on 21 August 1941 and arrived at Archangelsk on 31 August 1941. The Convoy...
(1941) - Trawlers of the Royal NavyTrawlers of the Royal NavyThis is an accounting of the naval trawlers, purpose built or requisitioned, operated by the Royal Navy mainly during World War I and World War II. They were typically given the prefix HMT which stood for "His Majesty's Trawler".-Summary:...