HMS Felixstowe (J126)
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| Career |  |
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| Class and type: | Bangor class minesweeper |
| Name: | HMS Felixstowe |
| Builder: | Lobnitz and Company, Renfrew, Scotland |
| Laid down: | 8 August 1940 |
| Launched: | 15 January 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 11 July 1941 |
| Fate: | Sunk by a mine on 18 December 1943 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 656 tons |
| Length: | 174 ft (53.0 m) |
| Beam: | 28.5 ft (8.7 m) |
| Draught: | 8.25 ft (2.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | Two Admiralty 3-drum water tube boilers two shafts coupled to steam turbines 2,000 shp (1500 kW) |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h) |
| Complement: | 60 |
| Armament: |
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HMS Felixstowe was a turbine engined Bangor class minesweeper of the Royal Navy. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy named after the Suffolk town of Felixstowe.
She was built by Lobnitz and Company, Renfrew, Scotland and launched on 22 July 1941. She served in the Mediterranean during the Second World War. She struck a mine on 18 December 1943 and sank east of Capo Ferro, Sardinia, Italy.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- HMS Felixstowe at Uboat.net
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