Английская Википедия:HMS Plover (M26)

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HMS Plover was a coastal minelayer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. She laid over 15,000 mines during World War II and remained on active duty until she was sold for scrap in 1969.

Description

Plover displaced Шаблон:Convert at standard load and Шаблон:Convert at deep load. The ship had an overall length of Шаблон:Convert, a beam of Шаблон:Convert and a draught of Шаблон:Convert. She was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, driving two shafts, which developed a total of Шаблон:Convert and gave a maximum speed of Шаблон:Convert. Steam for the engines was provided by two water-tube boilers. Plover carried a maximum of Шаблон:Convert of fuel oil. The ship's complement was 69 officers and men.[1]

The ship initially mounted two Шаблон:Convert machine guns, but after war broke out a single 12-pounder (3 in (76.2 mm)) gun was added aft as well as a [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|Шаблон:Convert Oerlikon]] autocannon forward. Plover was initially fitted with mine recovery gear, but her mine capacity increased from 80 to 100 after it was removed when World War II began. Sometime during the war she received a Type 286 air warning radar.[1]

Career

HMS Plover was accepted by the Royal Navy on 25 September 1937 and was commissioned on the same day.[2] She was intended to conduct mining trials and was therefore fitted to recover as well as lay mines.[1] During World War II she laid a total of 15,237 mines,[2] including two that sank the Шаблон:Ship off the Belgian coast in January 1942.[3]

Near the end of the war, the Шаблон:GS struck a mine that was part of a minefield laid by Plover on the morning of 30 April 1945, Шаблон:Convert south of Lizard Point and consisted of 100 Mk XVII/XVII(8) mines.[4]

The ship was kept in service after the war[2] and took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.[5] She was sold to Thos. W. Ward in 1969. Plover arrived at their yard in Inverkeithing, Scotland, in April 1969 to begin scrapping.[6]

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Lenton, p. 306
  2. ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 Cocker, p. 20
  3. ↑ Rohwer, pp. 138–39
  4. ↑ Niestlé, A. 2010. The ‘Atlas’ Survey Zone: Deep-sea Archaeology & U-boat Loss Reassessments. PDF Шаблон:Webarchive
  5. ↑ Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden
  6. ↑ Lenton, p. 308
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