H.M.S. Redcar (1916)

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H.M.S. Redcar (1916)
Admiralty Pendant Number: 902[1]
Pendant Number: none[2]
Builder: Ayrshire Shipbuilding Company[3]
Ordered: Jan 1916[4]
Launched: 31 Jul, 1916[5]
Mined: 24 Jun, 1917[6]
Fate: off Dover

H.M.S. Redcar was one of thirty-two Ascot Class paddle minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Redcar was sunk with the loss of seven lives in a minefield in the Dover Strait. The destroyer Tartar was heavily damaged in the same field, and the paddle sweeper Kempton was also sunk.[7]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111. See this note for more info.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  7. Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. 370.
  8. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 397g.
  9. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 94.

Bibliography


Ascot Class Paddle Minesweeper
1915 Design
Ascot Atherstone Chelmsford Chepstow Croxton
Doncaster Eglinton Epsom Eridge Gatwick
Kempton Lingfield Ludlow Melton Newbury
Plumpton Pontefract Cheltenham Goodwood Haldon
  Hurst Redcar Sandown Totnes  
Enlarged, 1917 Design
  Banbury Harpenden Hexham Lanark  
  Lewes Shincliffe Shirley Wetherby  
  Minesweepers (UK) Hunt Class –>