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HMS Plover (M26)

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Description
Career
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References

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Ship image= HMS Plover WWII IWM FL 12893.jpg

Ship caption=Plover during World War II
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Ship country=United Kingdom

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Ship name=HMS Plover

Ship ordered=21 July 1936

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Ship builder=William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton

Ship laid down=7 October 1931

Ship launched=8 June 1937

Ship christened=

Ship notes=Pennant number: M26^[1]

Ship commissioned=24 September 1937

Ship fate=Sold for scrap, 1969
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Built range=1936–1937

In service range=1937–1969

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Ship class=Coastal minelayer

805|LT|t|abbr=on}} (standard)

{{convert|1020|LT|t|abbr=on}} (deep)

195|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} o/a

33|ft|9|in|m|1|abbr=on}}

10|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}

1400|ihp|kW|lk=in|abbr=on}}

2 × water-tube boilers

Ship propulsion=2 × shafts, 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines

14.75|kn|lk=in}}

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Ship complement=69

0.303|in|mm|abbr=on}} machine guns

80–100 × mines

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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 {{convert|805|LT|t}} at standard load and {{convert|1020|LT|t}} at deep load. The ship had an overall length of {{convert|195|ft|m|1}}, a beam of {{convert|33|ft|9|in|m|1}} and a draught of {{convert|10|ft|m|1}}. She was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, driving two shafts, which developed a total of {{convert|1400|ihp|lk=in}} and gave a maximum speed of {{convert|14.75|kn|lk=in}}. Steam for the engines was provided by two water-tube boilers. Plover carried a maximum of {{convert|116|LT|t}} of fuel oil. The ship's complement was 69 officers and men.^[1]

The ship initially mounted two {{convert|0.303|in|mm|abbr=on}} machine guns, but after war broke out a single 12-pounder (3 in (76.2 mm)) gun was added aft as well as a {{convert|20|mm|adj=on|1}} 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 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 {{ship|German destroyer|Z8 Bruno Heinemann}} off the Belgian coast in January 1942.^[3]

Near the end of the war, the {{GS|U-325}} struck a mine that was part of a minefield laid by Plover on the morning of 30 April 1945, {{convert|17|km|mi}} 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]

Notes

1. ^¹²³Lenton, p. 306
2. ^¹Cocker, p. 20
3. ^Rohwer, pp. 138–39
4. ^Niestlé, A. 2010. The ‘Atlas’ Survey Zone: Deep-sea Archaeology & U-boat Loss Reassessments. PDF
5. ^Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden
6. ^Lenton, p. 308

References

{{cite book|last=Cocker|first=M. P.|title=Mine Warfare Vessels of the Royal Navy: 1908 to Date|publisher=Airlife Publishing|location=Shrewsbury, England|year=1993|isbn=1-85310-328-4}}
{{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger|publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=Greenwich|year=1980|isbn=0-85177-146-7}}
{{cite book|last=Lenton|first=H. T.|title=British & Commonwealth Warships of the Second World War|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=1998|isbn=1-55750-048-7}}
{{cite book|last=Rohwer|first=Jürgen|title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=2005|edition=Third Revised|isbn=1-59114-119-2}}

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