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Linnet-class minelayer
1938 class of British minelayers

The Linnet class were a class of three small coastal minelayers commissioned into the Royal Navy just before the Second World War.

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Description

The Linnet class were the largest of a dozen specialized vessels known as "Indicator Loop Mine Layers" built for the Royal Navy immediately before and during the Second World War. These vessels were designed to lay controlled mines, used in coastal defences, as well as anti-submarine indicator loops. Similar vessels known as mine planters were operated by the US Army during the same era.1

Ships of the class had a displacement of 498 tons standard and a length of 145 ft 0 in (44.20 m) between perpendiculars. They were equipped with a single 20 mm gun and two machine guns. They had two triple expansion engines which allowed the ship to have a maximum speed of 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph). There was a complement of 24 officers and crew and a total mine capacity of 12.2

Ships

NameBuilderLaunchedFateNotes
Linnet (M69)Ardrossan Dockyard3 May 1938Broken up in 1964Tender to HMS Vernon
Redstart (M62)Henry Robb3 May 1938Scuttled on 19 December 1941Scuttled in Hong Kong to prevent its capture by the Japanese3
Ringdove (M77)Henry Robb15 June 1938Sold in 1950 to Pakistan as a pilot vesselTender to HMS Vernon

Notes

  • Jane's Fighting Ships 1939, p. 98
  • Cocker, M.P. (1993). Mine Warfare Vessels of the Royal Navy: 1908 to Date. Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing. ISBN 1-85310-328-4.

References

  1. Walding, Richard. "Royal Navy Harbour Defences - Hong Kong". Indicator Loops. Retrieved 1 September 2022. http://indicatorloops.com/hongkong.htm

  2. Cocker, pp. 20-21

  3. Walding, Richard. "Royal Navy Harbour Defences - Hong Kong". Indicator Loops. Retrieved 1 September 2022. http://indicatorloops.com/hongkong.htm