The Round Table class was a small class of
trawlers Trawler may refer to:
Boats
* Fishing trawler, used for commercial fishing
* Naval trawler, a converted trawler, or a boat built in that style, used for naval purposes
** Trawlers of the Royal Navy
* Recreational trawler, a pleasure boat built tra ...
built for the British
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
in 1941–1942.
The class were built by two
Aberdeen
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shipbuilding firms
Hall, Russell & Company
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited was a shipbuilder based in Aberdeen, Scotland.
History
Brothers James and William Hall, Thomas Russell, a Glasgow engineer, and James Cardno Couper founded the company in 1864 to build steam engines and boile ...
and
J. Lewis & Sons Ltd.
All were built to a 1936 design, the ''Star of Orkney'', by Hall, Russell & Co but were commissioned as
minesweeper
A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clear for safe shipping.
History
The earliest known usage of ...
s.
Two of the class, ''Sir Galahad'' and ''Sir Lancelot'' were converted to
danlayer
A danlayer was a type of vessel assigned to minesweeping flotillas during and immediately after World War II. They were usually small trawlers, fitted for the purpose of laying dans. A dan is a marker buoy which consists of a long pole moored to ...
s.
Ships
The ships (and assigned
pennant number
In the Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations, ships are identified by pennant number (an internationalisation of ''pendant number'', which it was called before 1948). Historically, naval ships flew a flag that iden ...
s)
in the class were:
* ''Sir Agravaine'' (T230) launched 5 March 1942
*
''Sir Galahad'' (T226) launched 18 December 1941
* ''Sir Gareth'' (T227) launched 19 January 1942
* ''Sir Geraint'' (T240) launched 15 April 1942
* ''Sir Kay'' (T241) launched 26 October 1942
* ''Sir Lamorack'' (T242) launched 23 November 1942
*
''Sir Lancelot'' (T228) launched 4 December 1941
* ''Sir Tristram'' (T229) launched 17 January 1942
See also
*
Trawlers of the Royal Navy
Naval trawlers were purpose-built or requisitioned and operated by the Royal Navy (RN), mainly during World Wars I and II. Vessels built to Admiralty specifications for RN use were known as Admiralty trawlers. All trawlers operated by the RN, r ...
References
Minesweepers of the Royal Navy
Naval trawlers of the United Kingdom
Ship classes of the Royal Navy
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