Difference between revisions of "HMS Clacton"

HMS Clacton
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History
Name	HMS Clacton
Owner	Admiralty
Builder	Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull
Yard number	488
Completed	1905
In service	7 Oct 1914
Out of service	3 Aug 1916
Reclassified	Minesweeper, mercantile conversion
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk 1917
General characteristics
Type	Auxiliary minesweeper
Tonnage	820 tons
Length	74.7m
Beam	9.5m
Propulsion	2 screw
Speed	13.5 knots
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Revision as of 18:42, 15 January 2023

Remarks

A passenger ship converted to become an auxiliary minesweeper, the Clacton participated in the Gallioli Campaign of 1915, and afterwards remained active in the Aegean Sea until it was sunk on 3 Aug 1916 by U-Boat U-73 at Chai Aghizi in the northern Aegean Sea with the loss of five personnel. She had been used to evacuate walking and lightly wounded from Gallipoli, possibly to the hospitals at Mudross on Lemnos Island.

The day before ( 29 May 1915) the Clacton carried Bernard O'Reilly from Gallipoli to Mudross, it had been tasked with running ammunition and stores to the peninsula.

Armament

2 x 12 pounders

Battle Honours

Gallipoli

Soldiers carried

Gallipoli to Mudross 30 May 1915

Bernard O'Reilly Post WW1

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 ==Remarks==
-A passenger ship converted to Auxiliary minesweeper, the Clacton participated in the Gallioli Campaign of 1915, and afterwards remained active in the Aegean Sea until it was sunk on 3 Aug 1916 by U-Boat U-73 at Chai Aghizi in the northern Aegean Sea with the loss of 5 personnel. Was used to evacuate walking and lightly wounded from Gallipoli, possibly to the hospitals at Mudross on Lemnos Island.
+A passenger ship converted to become an auxiliary minesweeper, the Clacton participated in the Gallioli Campaign of 1915, and afterwards remained active in the Aegean Sea until it was sunk on 3 Aug 1916 by U-Boat U-73 at Chai Aghizi in the northern Aegean Sea with the loss of five personnel. She had been used to evacuate walking and lightly wounded from Gallipoli, possibly to the hospitals at Mudross on Lemnos Island.
 The day before ( 29 May 1915) the ''Clacton'' carried [[Bernard O'Reilly]] from Gallipoli to Mudross, it had been tasked with running ammunition and stores to the peninsula.