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AZALEA HMS 2015

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Feb 08, 2016 7:07 pm

Built as a sloop under yard No 531 by Barclay, Curle & Co, Whiteinch, Glasgow for the Royal Navy.
? Laid down.
10 September 1915 launched as the HMS AZALEA (T32) one of the Acacia class.
Displacement 1,134 ton light, 1,269 ton full load, , dim. 76.2 x 10.1 x 3.7m. (draught), length bpp. 76.2m.
Powered by one 4-cyl. triple expansion steam engine, maximum 1,800 ihp, one shaft, speed 16.5 knots.
Range by a speed of 15 knots, 2,000 mile.
Bunker capacity 250 ton coal maximum.
Armament 2 – 12 pdr, 2 – 3 pdr AA guns.
Crew 77.
October 1915 completed.

Of her wartime career I can’t find anything, only that in July 1917 her bow was almost blown off by a mine, and she was repaired in Malta
? Decommissoned.
01 February 1923 she was sold to J. Hornby & Sons for scrap and she was broken up the same year.

Guyana 2015 $80 sg?, scott?
Source: Various internet sites.
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