History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Mariner |
Builder | Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur |
Laid down | 26 August 1943 |
Launched | 9 May 1944 |
Commissioned | 23 May 1944 |
Identification | Pennant number J380 |
Fate | Sold to the Burmese Navy on 18 April 1958 |
Burma | |
Name | Yang Myo Aung |
Acquired | 18 April 1958 |
Fate | Laid up and deleted in 1982 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Algerine-class minesweeper |
Displacement |
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Length | 225 ft (69 m) o/a |
Beam | 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) |
Draught | 12.25 ft 6 in (3.89 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 85 |
Armament |
HMS Mariner was a reciprocating engine-powered Algerine-class minesweeper during the Second World War. Laid down as HMCS Kincardine for the Royal Canadian Navy she was transferred on completion to the Royal Navy as HMS Mariner. She survived the war and was sold to Myanmar in 1958 as Yang Myo Aung.