History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Sphinx |
Ordered | 26 August 1937 |
Builder | Hamilton's, Port Glasgow |
Laid down | 17 January 1938 |
Launched | 7 February 1939 |
Commissioned | 27 July 1939 |
Fate | Bombed and wrecked, 2 February 1940 |
Badge | On a field Blue, a Sphinx Gold |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Halcyon-class minesweeper |
Displacement | |
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 |
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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 |
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HMS Sphinx (J69) was a Halcyon-class minesweeper (officially, "fleet minesweeping sloop") of the British Royal Navy, which was commissioned in 1939, just prior to World War II. During the war she served in the North Sea until bombed and wrecked on 2 February 1940.[2]