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Minesweeper of the Royal Navy
History
United Kingdom
Name HMS Saltburn
Namesake Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Builder Murdoch and Murray
Laid down 29 January 1918
Launched 9 October 1918
Completed 31 December 1918
Fate Sold for scrap , 16 November 1946
Notes Pennant number N52
General characteristics (1939)
Class and type Hunt-class minesweeper
Displacement 710 long tons (721 t)
Length 231 ft (70.4 m)
Beam 28 ft 6 in (8.7 m)
Draught 8 ft (2.4 m)
Installed power 2,200 ihp (1,600 kW)
Propulsion
Speed 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Range 1,500 nmi (2,800 km; 1,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement 74
Armament
HMS Saltburn was a Hunt-class minesweeper built for the Royal Navy during World War I . Named after the town of Saltburn-by-the-Sea in North Yorkshire , she was not completed until after the end of the war. The ship saw no active service during World War II as she spent the war as a training ship . Saltburn was sold for scrap in 1946, but was wrecked while under tow.
Saltburn was built by Murdoch and Murray of Port Glasgow and her keel was laid down on 29 January 1918. She was launched on 9 October 1918 and completed on 31 December 1918. The ship was armed with a QF 4-inch (102 mm) gun forward and a QF 12-pounder anti-aircraft gun aft.
In the 1930s, Saltburn was the RN Signal School's tender. A prototype Type 79X radar was installed in October 1936 and its antennas were strung between the ship's masts. They detected an aircraft at an altitude of 500 feet (150 m) and a range of 17 nautical miles (31 km; 20 mi) during tests in July 1937.[ 1] The ship spent World War II as the tender for HMS Dryad , the Royal Navy's navigation school.
After the war, Saltburn ran aground off Horse Sand Fort on 26 October 1945 and was declared a constructive total loss . She was sold for scrap on 16 November 1946, but was wrecked around 2 miles south of Hartland Point, Devon, the following month while under tow.[ 2]
The wrecking rights were bought by a local man, Jack Gifford. The stairs of the ship still exist in a cottage in Hartland. The cottage is named Saltburn after the ship.
Notes
^ Swords, pp. 87–88.
^ Lenton, p. 251.
References
Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Commonwealth Warships of the Second World War . Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-048-7 .
Swords, Sean S. (1986). Technical History of the Beginnings of Radar . London: IEE/Peter Peregrinus. ISBN 0-86341-043-X .
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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in October 1945
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1 Oct: Empire Cormorant
8 Oct: Kuri
9 Oct: USS Dorsey , USS Extricate , USS Greene , USS Industry , USS Lamberton , USS LST-826 , USS Nestor , USS Ocelot , USS Silica , USS SC-636 , USS Snowbell , USS Southard , USS Southern Seas (a.k.a. Lyndonia ), USS Weehawken , USS Vandalia
15 Oct: Zhong’anlun
16 Oct: Takliwa
26 Oct: HMS Saltburn
29 Oct: Ha-204 , I-363
30 Oct: Wairuna
Unknown date: Ha-101 , Ha-102 , Ha-104
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1 Jan: USS Dorsey
2 Jan: U-516 , U-2502
3 Jan: Empire Tigachi , U-825 , U-2336 , U-2351
5 Jan: U-541 , U-901 , U-2506
6 Jan: U-1109 , U-2356
7 Jan: U-1010 , U-1023 , U-2511
8 Jan: HMS Safari
14 Jan: USS Snowbell , USS Southard
28 Jan: Bluenose
30 Jan: Luray Victory
January (unknown date): Akagi Maru
2 Feb: U-764
3 Feb: I-505
5 Feb: U-1228
10 Feb: U-975
12 Feb: I-501 , U-3514
14 Feb: Fulham VII
15 Feb: I-502 , I-506
February (unknown date): U-1197
1 Mar: Sackett's Harbor
4 Mar: USS Extricate
6 Mar: George W. Norris
11 Mar: USS Roche
16 Mar: Karl Leonhardt
26 Mar: Z34
27 Mar: HM LST-405
1 Apr: Charles S. Haight , Ha-103 , Ha-105 , Ha-106 , Ha-107 , Ha-108 , Ha-109 , Ha-111 , Ha-201 , Ha-202 , Ha-203 , Ha-208 , I-36 , I-47 , I-53 , I-58 , I-156 , I-157 , I-158 , I-159 , I-162 , I-366 , I-367 , I-402 , Ro-50
4 Apr: USS S-35
5 Apr: Ha-207 , Ha-210 , Ha-216 , I-202 , Ro-31
8 Apr: USS Despatch
9 Apr: Empire Bridge
16 Apr: I-503 , I-504
21 Apr: Empire Christopher
24 Apr: Alfios
30 Apr: Georgetown Victory , I-121 , Ro-68 , Ro-500 , USS Solar , HMS Stubborn , HMAS Tolga
1 May: HMS Tarantula
8 May: I-153 , I-154 , I-155
9 May: Ha-205
14 May: USS Bellona
21 May: I-203
23 May: I-201
24 May: DD-224 (ex-USS Stewart )
28 May: I-14
31 May: I-401
May (unknown date): Ro-62 , Ro-63
4 Jun: I-400 , Kunashiri
7 Jun: Kamikaze
8 Jun: Myōkō
9 Jun: USS Solar
1 Jul: USS Anderson , USS Carlisle , USS Gilliam , USS Lamson , Sakawa
25 Jul: USS Apogon , USS Arkansas , USS LSM-60 , USS Pilotfish , USS Saratoga , USS Skipjack
30 Jul: Nagato
2 Aug: Empire Cross
August (unknown date): I-372
19 Sep: Ohio
16 Oct: Cassius Hudson
17 Oct: HMAS Waree
19 Oct: Takao
13 Nov: U-977
20 Nov: Albany
27 Nov: Laksnes
2 Dec: HMCS Middlesex
6 Dec: N35
8 Dec: Liberté , HMS Saltburn
16 Dec: Leipzig , Z29
22 Dec: Prinz Eugen
24 Dec: Northeastern Victory
26 Dec: Brigadier General M. G. Zalinski
31 Dec: Monte Pascoal , Schwabenland
Unknown date: Claus Von Bevern , HMS Truant , Yu 1007
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