HMS Bramble (J11)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Bramble.
HMS Bramble was a Halcyon-class minesweeper (officially, "fleet minesweeping sloop") of the Royal Navy, which was commissioned in 1939, just prior to World War II. During the war she served as a minesweeper in the North Sea, and then on Russian convoys until sunk in the Battle of the Barents Sea on 31 December 1942 by the German cruiser Admiral Hipper and the destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt.
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HMS Bramble, April 1942 | |
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Name | HMS Bramble |
Ordered | 11 August 1937 |
Builder | HM Dockyard, Devonport |
Laid down | 22 November 1937 |
Launched | 12 July 1938 |
Commissioned | 22 June 1939 |
Honours and awards | Arctic 1941–42 |
Fate | Sunk, 31 December 1942 |
Badge | On a Field White, a Bramble, slipped and leaved Proper |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Halcyon-class minesweeper |
Displacement | |
Length | 245 ft 9 in (74.90 m) o/a |
Beam | 33 ft 6 in (10.21 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
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Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Range | 7,200 nmi (13,300 km; 8,300 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 121 |
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