H.M.S. Ludlow (1916)

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H.M.S. Ludlow (1916)
Admiralty Pendant Number: 897[1]
Pendant Number: none[2]
Builder: Goole Shipbuilding Company[3]
Ordered: Sep 1915[4]
Launched: 1 May, 1916[5]
Mined: 29 Dec, 1916[6]
Fate: off the Shipwash
H.M.S. Ludlow was one of thirty-two Ascot Class paddle minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

From August 1916, Ludlow served as one of the six paddle minesweepers then serving under the command of the Admiral of Minesweeping. In this assignment, Ludlow was lost to a mine in the North Sea on 29 December, 1916. Five men lost their lives outright, and one died of wounds on 11 January, 1917.[7]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111. See this note for more info.
  3. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
  7. Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. 304.
  8. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 395xx.
  9. Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 76.

Bibliography


Ascot Class Paddle Minesweeper
1915 Design
Ascot Atherstone Chelmsford Chepstow Croxton
Doncaster Eglinton Epsom Eridge Gatwick
Kempton Lingfield Ludlow Melton Newbury
Plumpton Pontefract Cheltenham Goodwood Haldon
  Hurst Redcar Sandown Totnes  
Enlarged, 1917 Design
  Banbury Harpenden Hexham Lanark  
  Lewes Shincliffe Shirley Wetherby  
  Minesweepers (UK) Hunt Class –>