![]() HMS Onyx
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History | |
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Name | Onyx |
Namesake | Onyx |
Ordered | 15 November 1940 |
Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
Laid down | 24 November 1941 |
Launched | 27 October 1942 |
Commissioned | 26 March 1943 |
Identification | Pennant number: J221 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1967 |
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 Onyx (J221) was a steam turbine-powered Algerine-class minesweeper during the Second World War.