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Revision as of 11:49, 9 April 2018
Twenty-four 24 class sweeping sloops were planned for the Royal Navy near the very end of the war and in the years immediately following. Two were cancelled on 3 December, 1918 before completion. They were all named for racing horses and thus were sometimes called the Racehorse class.
| Overview of 22 vessels | |||||
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Ard Patrick | Swan Hunter | 6 Jun, 1918 | Sold 12 Aug, 1920 | ||
| Bend Or | Barclay Curle & Company | 24 Sep, 1918 | Sold 12 Aug, 1920 | ||
| Cicero | Swan Hunter | 26 Jul, 1918 | Sold 1 Dec, 1921 | ||
| Donovan | Greenock & Grangemouth | 27 Apr, 1918 | Sold 15 Nov, 1922 | ||
| Flying Fox | Swan Hunter | 28 Mar, 1918 | Transferred 24 Mar, 1920 | ||
| Harvester | Barclay Curle & Company | 2 Nov, 1918 | Sold Aug, 1922 | ||
| Iroquois | Barclay Curle & Company | 24 Aug, 1918 | Handed over 28 Jun, 1937 | ||
| Isinglass | Greenock & Grangemouth | 5 Mar, 1919 | Sold 12 Aug, 1920 | ||
| Ladas | Osbourne Graham & Company | 21 Sep, 1918 | Sold 6 Nov, 1920 | ||
| Merry Hampton | Blyth Shipbuilding | 19 Dec, 1918 | Scuttled Feb, 1943 | ||
| Minoru | Swan Hunter | 6 Jun, 1919 | Sold 25 Feb, 1920 | ||
| Orby | Swan Hunter | 22 Oct, 1918 | Sold 15 Nov, 1922 | ||
| Ormonde | Blyth Shipbuilding | 8 Jun, 1918 | Sold 6 Aug, 1937 | ||
| Persimmon | Osbourne Graham & Company | 4 Mar, 1919 | Sold 13 Oct, 1922 | ||
| Rocksand | Swan Hunter | 10 Jul, 1918 | Sold 15 Nov, 1922 | ||
| Sanfoin | Greenock & Grangemouth | 10 Jun, 1918 | Sold 15 Nov, 1922 | ||
| Sefton | Barclay Curle & Company | 6 Jul, 1918 | Sold Aug, 1922 | ||
| Silvio | Barclay Curle & Company | 12 Apr, 1918 | Transferred Dec, 1924 | ||
| Sir Bevis | Barclay Curle & Company | 11 May, 1918 | Transferred Sep, 1923 | ||
| Sir Hugo | Greenock & Grangemouth | 20 Sep, 1918 | Sold 25 Jun, 1930 | ||
| Sir Visto | Osbourne Graham & Company | 4 Dec, 1918 | Sold Aug, 1920 | ||
| Spearmint | Swan Hunter | 23 Sep, 1918 | Sold 29 Nov, 1922 | ||
Design & Construction
They featured a single funnel and mast and were designed to appear double-ended. Four of the vessels had the mast abaft the funnel, the others had the mast positioned ahead of the funnel.
Performance
Armament
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
