&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Squirrel_FL10368.jpg) HMS Squirrel underway in Belfast Lough on completion.
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Squirrel |
| Ordered | 30 April 1942 |
| Builder | Harland and Wolff, Belfast[1] |
| Yard number | 1206[2] |
| Laid down | 20 August 1943 |
| Launched | 20 April 1944 |
| Completed | 16 August 1944[2] |
| Commissioned | 16 August 1944 |
| Identification | Pennant number J301 |
| Fate | Hit a mine and subsequently scuttled, 24 July 1945[3] |
| 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 (3.4 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 Squirrel was a turbine-powered Algerine-class minesweeper built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was scuttled after striking a mine in 1945.
- ^ "NMM, vessel ID 376280" (PDF). Warship Histories, vol x. National Maritime Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
- ^ a b McCluskie 2013, p. 153.
- ^ Brown 1995, p. 155.