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Name: SANDWICH
Type: Minesweeping Sloop
Keel: 09/02/1928
Launched: 29/09/1928
Completed: 23/03/1929
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 556
Dimensions: 1045disp - 1360disp, 250.0 x 34.0 x 8.8ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR geared, 2000shp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 17.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 1 x 4.0ins AA, 1 x 4 x 0.5ins guns
History:
23/03/1929 British Royal Navy
08/01/1946 Unknown owner; renamed PRINCE ALBERT
1947 Hui Bon Hua, Tunis; renamed AMOY
18/02/1948 Sank
Comments: 1946: Converted to a cargo ship
18/02/1948: Foundered off La Nouvelle, southern France
On a voyage from Oran to Sete with a cargo of fruit & vegetables


Above photo as SANDWICH is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo as SANDWICH is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Copied and digitised by Terry Summerson from the original Shipyard Data Books. Click HERE to enlarge.

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