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Name: HAVANT
Type: Inshore Minesweeper
Keel:
Launched: 24/03/1919
Completed: 1919
Builder: Eltringham's Ltd
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 338
Dimensions: 710disp - 930disp, 220.0 x 28.5 x 7.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x VT3cyl (13.25, 21.25 & 34 x 21ins), 2200ihp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 16.5knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 1 x 4.0ins QF, 1 x 12pdr AA guns
History:
1919 British Royal Navy
08/1922 JI Thorneycroft, Southampton
1923 Government of Siam; renamed CHOW PHRAYA
24/08/1971 Stricken
Comments: Member of the Hunt Class (Group 2) or Aberdare group
1923: Minesweeping equipment removed & classified as a Sloop
1940s: Armament modernised
28/04/1971: Stricken, but ultimate fate unknown


Above photo is of GAINSBOROUGH, a member of the same class. Photo courtesy of George Robinson