Round Table-class trawler

Class overview
HMS Sir Galahad
Builders	Hall, Russell & Company J. Lewis & Sons Ltd
Operators	Royal Navy
Built	1941–1942
Completed	8
General characteristics
Type	Minesweeper Danlayer
Displacement	440 long tons (447 t)
Length	125 ft (38.1 m)
Beam	23 ft 6 in (7.2 m)
Draught	13 ft 9 in (4.2 m)
Complement	35
Armament	1 × 12 pdr anti-aircraft gun 1 × 20 mm anti-aircraft gun 2 × machine guns

The Round Table class was a small class of trawlers built for the British Royal Navy in 1941–1942.^[1] The class were built by two Aberdeen shipbuilding firms Hall, Russell & Company and J. Lewis & Sons Ltd.^[2]

All were built to a 1936 design, the Star of Orkney,^[3] by Hall, Russell & Co but were commissioned as minesweepers.^[4] Two of the class, Sir Galahad and Sir Lancelot were converted to danlayers.^[1]

Ships

The ships (and assigned pennant numbers)^[5] in the class were:

Sir Agravaine (T230) launched 5 March 1942
Sir Galahad (T226) launched 18 December 1941
Sir Gareth (T227) launched 19 January 1942
Sir Geraint (T240) launched 15 April 1942
Sir Kay (T241) launched 26 October 1942
Sir Lamorack (T242) launched 23 November 1942
Sir Lancelot (T228) launched 4 December 1941
Sir Tristram (T229) launched 17 January 1942

See also

Trawlers of the Royal Navy

References

^ ^a ^b "Admiralty Trawlers". battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
^ "Round Table class MS Trawlers". uboat.net. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
^ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. 1980. p. 57. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
^ "Sir Galahad". Aberdeen Ships. Aberdeen Built Ships Project. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
^ Index of ships by pennant numbers (PDF). US Navy Directorate of Naval Intelligence. p. 47. Retrieved 15 March 2010.

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Argus
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C
Danae
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Leander
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R
S
V & W
Town^A
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Amazon
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E & F
G & H
I
Tribal
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C
Battle
Weapon^C
G^X
Daring^C,P

24
Bridgewater
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Adventure
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M
Agamemnon^V
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Hunt
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MMS
Auk^A
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Bar
Net

H
L
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S
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T
U
P611
V
Amphion
X
XE

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Insect-class gunboat

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Type Two 63 ft HSL

Other

Trawlers: Castle; Basset; Isles; Portuguese; Tree; Dance; Shakespearian; Round Table
Monitors: Erebus; Roberts
Seaplane carriers: Pegasus; Albatross
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A: American built
X: Cancelled
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V: Conversions

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