HMS Saltburn

Sister ship HMS Belvoir circa. 1917–1918
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	2 shafts 2 Vertical triple-expansion steam engines Yarrow water-tube boilers
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	1 × 4-inch (102 mm) gun forward 1 × QF 12-pounder aft 2 × .303 inch machine guns

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

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

References

• Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Commonwealth Warships of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
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• Swords, Sean S. (1986). Technical History of the Beginnings of Radar. London: IEE/Peter Peregrinus.
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• Chronologies of War Service of Royal Navy Warships
• Clydebuilt Database