HMS Scott (J79)
HMS Scott, 1944
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Scott |
Namesake | Robert Falcon Scott |
Builder | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee |
Laid down | 30 August 1937[1] |
Launched | 23 August 1938[1] |
Completed | 23 February 1939[1] |
Fate | Scrapped, 1965 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Halcyon-class minesweeper |
Displacement | |
Length | 245 ft 9 in (74.90 m) o/a |
Beam | 33 ft 6 in (10.21 m) |
Draught | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Complement | 80 |
HMS Scott (J79) was a
Service history
World War II
Scott surveyed the
In May 1941 Scott narrowly avoided detection by the
After the collision damage was repaired, Scott focused on providing navigational information for the minelayers placing the Northern Barrage between Greenland and Scotland from the spring of 1942 until the project was abandoned in the autumn of 1943. She surveyed the minefields in advance, and then accompanied the minelayers while the fields were placed.[3]
After testing the
Post-war service
Scott was deployed in June 1960 to map shipwrecks from both World Wars in the English Channel after the arrival of giant tankers. The requirements of those ships changed the minimum of clearance between their hulls and the wrecks below.[4]
Scott completed two decades of peacetime hydrographic duties in Home Waters before being retired in 1964 and scrapped in 1965. She located and swept many war-time wrecks while re-surveying coastal Great Britain.[1] Her work was continued by Hecla class survey vessels which have, in turn, been replaced by a new HMS Scott.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "HMS Scott". Halcyon Class. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ^ Lenton, H.T.; Colledge, J.J. (1968). British and Dominion Warships of World War II. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company. pp. 176–178.
- ^ Mason, Geoffrey B. "HMS AGAMEMNON - mercantile conversion, Auxiliary Minelayer". Service Histories of Royal Navy Warships in World War 2. edited by Gordon Smith. naval-history.net. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "RN Conducting Wreck Survey" (PDF). The Crowsnest. Vol. 12, no. 9. Queen's Printer. July 1960. p. 5.