HMS Caterham (1919)

History
United Kingdom
Builder:	Bow, McLachlan & Co, Paisley, Scotland
Launched:	6 March 1919
Fate:	Sold 26 April 1935 to Cashmore, Newport, Wales
General characteristics
Class and type:	Hunt class minesweeper (1916), Aberdare sub-class
Displacement:	710 tons
Length:	231 ft (70 m)
Beam:	28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught:	8 ft (2.4 m)
Propulsion:	Yarrow-type boilers, Vertical triple-expansion engines, 2 shafts, 2,200 ihp
Speed:	max 16 knots
Range:	140 tons coal
Complement:	73 men
Armament:	1 × QF 4 inch forward QF 12 pounder aft 2 × twin 0.303 inch machine guns

HMS Caterham was a Hunt class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I. She operated as a tender at the Navigation School. She was decommissioned before the outbreak of the Second World War and was sold in 1935 to Cashmore, of Newport, Monmouthshire to be broken up.

See also

• Caterham, Surrey

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.