HMS Blackburn was a Hunt class minesweeper built for the Royal Navy during World War I.
Design and description The Aberdare sub-class were enlarged versions of the original Hunt-class ships with a more powerful armament. The ships displaced at normal load and at full load.Lenton, p. 250 They measured long overall with a beam of and a draught of . The ships' complement consisted of 74 officers and ratings.Preston, p. 98
The ships had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft using steam provided by two Yarrow boilers. The engines produced a total of and gave a maximum speed of . They carried a maximum of of coal which gave them a range of at .Cocker, p. 76
The Aberdare sub-class was armed with a quick-firing (QF) gun forward of the bridge and a QF twelve-pounder (3-inch (76.2 mm)) anti-aircraft gun aft. Some ships were fitted with QF six-pounder () Hotchkiss guns or QF three-pounder () Hotchkiss guns in lieu of the twelve-pounder.
Construction and career Blackburn, the first ship of her name in the Royal Navy, was built by Bow, McLachlan and Company at their shipyard in Paisley, Scotland as Burnham. The ship was renamed Blackburn in 1918 and launched in August 1918. She was sold on 17 October 1922 to Fryer in Sunderland.Colledge, Warlow & Bush, p. 48
See also Blackburn, Lancashire
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