HMS Battle

History
United Kingdom
Builder
Launched	Cancelled and launched incomplete October 1919
Fate	Sold March 1922 to Ward, Inverkeithing
General characteristics
Class and type	Hunt class minesweeper (1916), Aberdare sub-class
Displacement	710 tons
Length	231 ft (70 m)
Beam	28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught	8 ft (2.4 m)
Propulsion	Yarrow-type boilers, Vertical triple-expansion engines, 2 shafts, 2,200 ihp
Speed	max 16 knots
Range	140 tons coal
Complement	73 men
Armament	1 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) forward 76 mm (3.0 in) aft 2 × twin 0.303 inch machine guns

HMS Battle was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I. She was cancelled and launched incomplete.

See also[]

• Battle, East Sussex

References[]

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

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