HMS Bluebell (1915)
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| Name: | HMS Bluebell |
| Builder: | Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Greenock |
| Launched: | 24 July 1915 |
| Fate: | Sold on 26 May 1930 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Acacia-class minesweeping sloop |
| Displacement: | 1,200 tons |
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| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
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| Speed: | Designed for 1,400 or 1,800 hp to make 17 knots (31 km/h), but actually required about 2200 I.H.P. for this speed |
| Range: | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h) with max. 250 tons of coal |
| Complement: | 77 men |
| Armament: | Designed to mount 2 × 12-pounder (76 mm) guns and 2 × 3-pounder (47 mm) AA guns, but with wide variations |
HMS Bluebell was an Acacia-class minesweeping sloop of the Royal Navy launched on 24 July 1915.
The merchant vessel SS Libau (masquerading under the name Aud) was intercepted by Bluebell as she carried arms to Ireland for the Easter Rising in 1916.
She was sold in May 1930.
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