Lobnitz & Company

Lobnitz & Company was a Scottish shipbuilding company located at Renfrew on the River Clyde.

History

Lobnitz built over fifty smaller vessels for the Royal Navy between 1915 and 1945.

Shipbuilding

Ship	Type	Launched	Fate
H.M.S. Honeysuckle	sweeping sloop	29 Apr, 1915	Sold Sep, 1922
H.M.S. Iris	sweeping sloop	1 Jun, 1915	Sold Jan, 1920
H.M.S. Heliotrope	sweeping sloop	10 Sep, 1915	Sold 7 Jan, 1935
H.M.S. Myrtle	sweeping sloop	11 Oct, 1915	Mined 16 Jul, 1919
H.M.S. Gnat	gunboat	3 Dec, 1915	Torpedoed 12 Oct, 1941
H.M.S. Crocus	sweeping sloop	24 Dec, 1915	Sold Jul, 1930
H.M.S. Cyclamen	sweeping sloop	22 Feb, 1916	Sold 2 Jul, 1932
H.M.S. Ladybird	gunboat	12 Apr, 1916	Sunk 12 May, 1944
H.M.S. Tamarisk	convoy sloop	2 Jun, 1916	Sold 17 Oct, 1922
H.M.S. Muskerry	minesweeper	28 Nov, 1916	Sold early 1923
H.M.S. Oakley	minesweeper	10 Jan, 1917	Sold early 1923
H.M.S. Polyanthus	convoy sloop	24 Sep, 1917	Sold 25 Jan, 1921
H.M.S. Saxifrage	convoy sloop	29 Jan, 1918	Transferred 1921
H.M.S. Pangbourne	minesweeper	26 Mar, 1918	Sold 13 Mar, 1947
H.M.S. Penarth	minesweeper	21 May, 1918	Mined 4 Feb, 1919
H.M.S. Pontypool	minesweeper	25 Jun, 1918	Sold 18 May, 1922
H.M.S. Prestatyn	minesweeper	6 Nov, 1918	Sold 22 Jan, 1923
H.M.S. Petersfield	minesweeper	3 Mar, 1919	Wrecked 11 Nov, 1931
H.M.S. Pinner	minesweeper	15 Apr, 1919	Mined 27 May, 1942
H.M.S. Ross	minesweeper	12 Jun, 1919	Sold 13 Mar, 1947
H.M.S. Radley	minesweeper	26 Aug, 1919	Sold Aug, 1945

See Also

• Wikipedia