Design and description
The ''Aberdare'' sub-class were enlarged versions of the original Hunt-class ships with a more powerful armament. The ships displaced at normal load. They had a length between perpendiculars of and measured length overall, long overall. The ''Aberdare''s had a beam (nautical), beam of and a draft (hull), draught of . The ships' complement consisted of 74 officers and naval rating, ratings.Gardiner & Gray, p. 98 The ships had two Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion, vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by two Yarrow boilers. The engines produced a total of and gave a maximum speed of . They carried a maximum of of coal which gave them a range of at .Cocker, p. 76 The ''Aberdare'' sub-class was armed with a quick-firing gun, quick-firing (QF) gun forward of the bridge (nautical), bridge and a QF twelve-pounder (76.2 mm) anti-aircraft gun aft. Some ships were fitted with six- or three-pounder guns in lieu of the twelve-pounder.Construction and career
HMS ''Dunoon'' was built by the Clyde Shipbuilding Company. In November 1939 she was sweeping for mines around Malta. The following month she was recalled to England, stopping at Gibraltar for fuel. She then worked in the North Sea as part of the 4th Minesweeping Flotilla, based at Great Yarmouth. In April 1940 she struck a mine at Smith's Knoll near Great Yarmouth and sank with the loss of 3 officers and 23 ratings.Fiction
HMS ''Dunoon'' is featured in the 1958 book ''The Dragon Tree'' by Victor CanningSee also
*Dunoon, ScotlandNotes
References
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dunoon Hunt-class minesweepers (1916) Royal Navy ship names World War II shipwrecks in the North Sea 1919 ships Maritime incidents in April 1940 Ships sunk by mines