HMS Bramble (J11)

HMS Bramble, April 1942
History
United Kingdom
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	875 long tons (889 t) standard 1,350 long tons (1,372 t) full load
Length	245 ft 9 in (74.90 m) o/a
Beam	33 ft 6 in (10.21 m)
Draught	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion	2 × Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers Parsons steam turbines 2,000 shp (1,500 kW) on 2 shafts
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
Armament	As completed: 2 × QF 4-inch Mk.V (L/45 102 mm) guns, single mounts HA Mk.III 4 × .5-inch Mk.III (12.7 mm) Vickers machine guns, quad mount HA Mk.I 4 × .303-inch (7.7 mm) Lewis machine-guns 4 × depth charge throwers 2 × depth charge rails

HMS Bramble was a Halcyon-class minesweeper (officially, "fleet minesweeping sloop") of the Royal Navy, which was commissioned in 1939, just before the Second World War. 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.