Cargo ship that was converted into a minelayer and amenities ship
HMS Menestheus in 1945 as an amenities ship
History
United Kingdom
Name
Menestheus
Namesake
Menestheus
Owner
Ocean SS Co Ltd
Operator
1929: A Holt & Co
1940: Royal Navy
1946: A Holt & Co
Port of registry
Liverpool
Builder
Caledon Sb & Eng Co, Dundee
Yard number
326
Launched
6 August 1929
Completed
December 1929
Commissioned
into Royal Navy, 1940
Decommissioned
returned to owners, 1946
Identification
UK official number 161134
code letters LPHV
call sign GBDT
1940: pennant number M93
Fate
Burnt out in 1953, then scrapped
General characteristics
Type
1929: refrigerated cargo ship
1940: auxiliary minelayer
Tonnage
7,771 GRT, 4,818 NRT, 9,140 DWT
Length
560.0 ft (170.7 m)
Beam
59.4 ft (18.1 m)
Depth
29.2 ft (8.9 m)
Decks
2
Installed power
1,295 NHP
Propulsion
2 × screws
2 × four-stroke diesel engines
Speed
15.5 knots (28.7 km/h)
Crew
81 (as cargo ship)
Sensors and processing systems
by 1933: wireless direction finding
by 1937: echo sounding device
by 1953: radar
Armament
3 × 4-inch guns
2 × 2-pounder guns
12 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
438 × mines
Notes
sister ships: Agamemnon, Deucalion, Memnon, Ajax
HMS Menestheus was originally the Blue Funnel Line refrigerated cargo ship Menestheus. She was built in 1929, and traded between the UK and the Far East. She was an auxiliary minelayer from 1940 to 1943. In 1945, during the Second World War, she was converted into an amenities ship. She was scrapped in 1953 after being gutted by fire.
She was the first of three Blue Funnel Line ships to be named after Menestheus, the legendary king of Athens during the Trojan War. She was the only Royal Navy ship to be called Menestheus.
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