HMS ''Fly'' (J306) was a reciprocating engine-powered during the Second World War. She survived the war and was sold to Iran in 1949 as IIS ''Palang''.

Design and description

The reciprocating group displaced at standard load and at deep load The ships measured long overall with a

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of . They had a draught of . The ships' complement consisted of 85 officers and ratings.Lenton, p. 261 The reciprocating ships had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by two

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s. The engines produced a total of and gave a maximum speed of . They carried a maximum of of

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that gave them a range of at . The ''Algerine'' class was armed with a QF Mk V

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and four twin-gun mounts for Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. The latter guns were in short supply when the first ships were being completed and they often got a proportion of single mounts. By 1944, single-barrel Bofors 40 mm mounts began replacing the twin 20 mm mounts on a one for one basis. All of the ships were fitted for four throwers and two rails for

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Construction and career

Service in the Royal Navy

The ship was ordered on 27 May 1941 at the Lobnitz & Company at

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, Scotland. She was laid down on 6 October 1941 and launched on 1 June 1942. She was commissioned on 10 October 1942. On 2 November, she conducted anti-submarine exercise off Tobermory together with the submarine

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. Few days later on the 6th, HMS Racehorse joined the two ships in the exercise. The next day, ''Racehorse'' was replaced by HMS Eriskay. In 1946, she was put into the 12th Minesweeper Flotilla as their flotilla leader together with HMS Cadmus, HMS Acute, HMS Circe, HMS Albacore and HMS Mutine. The flotilla was dispatched to sweep the mine fields off the

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and islands. ''Fly'' was decommissioned by the Navy in February 1947 and put into the

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. On 30 July 1949, the ship was sold to the

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Service in the Persian Navy

She was reclassified as a frigate and renamed IIS ''Palang'' after being acquired by the Navy. In 1966, ''Palang'' was decommissioned by the Navy''.'' In 1972, the ship was stricken and sold for scrap.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fly (J306) Algerine-class minesweepers of the Royal Navy Ships built in Scotland 1942 ships World War II minesweepers of the United Kingdom Frigates of Iran