| Name: | WELSHMAN |
| Type: | Minelayer |
| Keel: | 08/06/1939 |
| Launched: | 04/09/1940 |
| Completed: | 12/08/1941 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 623 |
| Dimensions: | 2650disp - 3415disp, 400.5 x 40.0 x 11.3(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 4 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 72000shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 40.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 3 x 2 x 4.7ins, 1 x 4 x 2pdr AA, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins AA guns, 156 x naval mines |
| (Later: 3 x 2 x 4.0ins AA, 4 x 1 x 20mm AA, 1 x 4 x 2pdr AA, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins AA guns) | |
| History: | |
| 25/08/1941 | British Royal Navy |
| 01/02/1943 | Sank |
| Comments: | A member of the Abdiel class of minelayers |
| 01/02/1943: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U167 east of Tobruk. 152 crew died |
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