| Name: | INSTOW |
| Type: | Inshore Minesweeper |
| Keel: | |
| Launched: | 15/04/1919 |
| Completed: | 1919 |
| Builder: | Eltringham's Ltd |
| Yard: | Willington Quay |
| Yard Number: | 340 |
| Dimensions: | 710disp - 930disp, 220.0 x 28.5 x 7.5(draft)ft; |
| (1920: 776grt, 337nrt, 219.8 x 28.6 x 15.6ft) | |
| 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 |
| 1920 | Alexander S Millar, Grangemouth; registered at Southampton; renamed TILAK |
| 1923 | Indian Co-operative Navigation & Trading Co Ltd; registered at Bombay |
| 1931 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Hunt Class (Group 2) or Aberdare group |
| Ordered as ILFRACOMBE | |
| 1920: Converted into a cargo ship. Registered as ON 145334 | |
| 1Q/1931: Broken up |
Above photo is of GAINSBOROUGH, a member of the same class. Photo courtesy of George Robinson