Linnet-class minelayer

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Class overview
Name	Linnet
Operators	Royal Navy
In service	1938
In commission	1938 - 1964
Completed	3
Active	0
Lost	1
Retired	2
General characteristics
Type	Minelayer
Displacement	498 tons standard
Length	145 ft 0 in (44.20 m) (p/p) 163 ft 9 in (49.91 m) (o/a)
Beam	27 ft 2 in (8.28 m)
Draught	8 ft 0 in (2.44 m)
Propulsion	Triple expansion engine 1 shaft 400 hp (300 kW)
Speed	10.5 knots (19.4 km/h)
Complement	24
Armament	2 × twin 0.303 in machine guns 1 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon (from 1942) 12 mines

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

Design[]

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.

Ships[]

• - built by Ardrossan Dockyard, launched on 3 May 1938, served as tender to HMS Vernon, broken up in 1964.
• - built by Henry Robb, launched on 3 May 1938, scuttled in Hong Kong on 19 December 1941 to prevent its capture by the Japanese.^[1]
• - built by Henry Robb, launched on 15 June 1938, served as tender to HMS Vernon, sold to the Pakistani government in 1950 as a pilot vessel.

Notes[]

References[]

• Jane's Fighting Ships 1939, p. 98