HMS Faversham was a Hunt-class minesweeper built for the Royal Navy during World War I. Completed in 1918, the ship was sold for scrap in 1927.
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 Faversham, the third ship of her name in the Royal Navy, was built by Dunlop Bremmer at their shipyard in Port Glasgow, Scotland. The ship was launched on 19 July 1918. She was sold on 25 November 1927 to the Alloa Shipbreaking Company.Colledge, Warlow & Bush, p. 150
See also Faversham
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