51°12′39″N 3°15′40″E / 51.2108215°N 3.2610586°E
HMS Liberty (M391)
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Liberty |
Namesake | Liberty |
Ordered | 30 April 1942 |
Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
Laid down | 27 November 1943 |
Launched | 22 August 1944 |
Commissioned | 18 January 1945 |
Decommissioned | July 1946 |
Reclassified | M391, 1949 |
Identification | Pennant number: J391 |
Fate | Sold to the Belgium, 1949 |
Belgium | |
Name | Adrien de Gerlache |
Namesake | Adrien de Gerlache |
Acquired | 1949 |
Commissioned | 29 November 1949 |
Decommissioned | 11 June 1970 |
Reclassified | A954, 1959 |
Stricken | 1970 |
Identification |
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Fate | Scrapped, 1970 |
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 | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 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 Liberty (J391) was a steam turbine-powered Algerine-class minesweeper during the Second World War. She survived the war and was sold to Belgium in 1949 as Adrien de Gerlache (M900).