scrap
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in 1947.
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
long overall
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. The ''Aberdare''s had a
beam
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of and a draught of . The ships' complement consisted of 74 officers and ratings.Gardiner & Gray, p. 98
The ships had two 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 (QF) gun forward of the bridge and a QF twelve-pounder (76.2 mm)
anti-aircraft gun
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aft. Some ships were fitted with six- or three-pounder guns in lieu of the twelve-pounder.
Construction and career
HMS ''Ross'' was built by the
Lobnitz
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at their
shipyard
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in
Renfrew
Renfrew (; sco, Renfrew; gd, Rinn Friù) is a town west of Glasgow in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is the historic county town of Renfrewshire. Called the "Cradle of the Royal Stewarts" for its early link with Scotland's former ...
. She was originally called HMS ''Ramsey'', but was renamed prior to launch. So far she has been the only ship of the Navy to bear the name ''Ross'', in this case after the Ross hunt.
In 1940, ''Ross'' was serving with the 5th Minesweeping Flotilla. With the rest of her flotilla, she took part in Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from
Dunkirk
Dunkirk (french: Dunkerque ; vls, label=French Flemish, Duunkerke; nl, Duinkerke(n) ; , ;) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.Aberdeen: a bomb passed through her bow without exploding, leaving its tail fin behind.
In 1941, during Warship Week, the Admiralty asked all the towns and counties in the country to adopt a ship. As a result, on 6 December 1941, ''Ross'' was formally adopted by Ross-on-Wye and the association remained until she was decommissioned in 1945. ''Ross'' was then finally sold for scrap on 13 March 1947.
An original Ship's Crest was presented to the town of Ross-on-Wye and it adorned the Mayor's chair in the Town Council Chamber for many years. More recently it has been loaned to ''TS Ross'', the local Sea Cadet Unit, for safe keeping and it can be viewed by the public on their maindeck.