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==Service==
==Service==
''Kempton'' was sunk with the loss of four lives in a minefield in the Dover Strait.  The {{UK-1Tartar|f=t}} was heavily damaged in the same field, and the paddle sweeper {{UK-Redcar}} was also sunk.{{KindellROH2|p. 370}}


==Captains==
==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{LiCRN}}|name=Alpin Erroll Thomson|nick=Alpin E. Thomson|appt=1 March, 1917|end=24 June, 1917{{HepperLosses|p. 94}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=ship lost under his command}}
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Latest revision as of 17:37, 9 April 2018

H.M.S. Kempton (1916)
Admiralty Pendant Number: 895[1]
Pendant Number: none[2]
Builder: Ferguson Brothers[3]
Ordered: Sep 1915[4]
Launched: 3 Jun, 1916[5]
Mined: 24 Jun, 1917[6]
Fate: off Dover

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

Service

Kempton was sunk with the loss of four lives in a minefield in the Dover Strait. The destroyer Tartar was heavily damaged in the same field, and the paddle sweeper Redcar 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. 395q.
  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 –>


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