Cargo steamship that was a Royal Navy auxiliary minelayer in WW2
History
Name
1938: Teviotbank
1940: Teviot Bank
1955: Nella
Namesake
1938: River Teviot
Owner
1938: Bank Line
1956: Cia de Nav Nella SA
Operator
1938: Andrew Weir & Co
1940: Royal Navy
Port of registry
1938: Glasgow
1955: Panama
Builder
J Readhead & Sons, S Shields
Yard number
511
Launched
1 December 1937
Completed
February 1938
Commissioned
1939
Decommissioned
1944
Identification
1938: UK official number 165927
Call sign GDGZ
1940: Pennant number M04
1956: Call sign HPVL
Fate
Scrapped in 1971
General characteristics
Type
1938: Cargo ship
1939: Auxiliary minelayer
Tonnage
5,087 GRT, 2,981 NRT
Length
423.7 ft (129.1 m)
Beam
56.7 ft (17.3 m)
Draught
25 ft 0+1⁄4 in (7.63 m)
Depth
24.8 ft (7.6 m)
Decks
1
Installed power
524 NHP
Propulsion
1 × Propeller
1 × Triple-expansion engine
Speed
12 knots (22 km/h)
Sensors and processing systems
1938: Echo sounding device
1959: Wireless direction finding, radiotelephone
Armament
1 × 4-inch gun
1 × 2-pounder gun
4 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
4 × 0.5-inch machine guns
280 × mines
Notes
Sister ships: Tielbank, Testbank
HMS Teviot Bank was a Bank Line steamship that was built in England in 1938 as the cargo ship Teviotbank. In the Second World War she was a Royal Navy auxiliary minelayer. By 1956 a Panamanian company had bought her and renamed her Nella. She was scrapped in Italy in 1971.
This was the first of two Bank Line ships called Teviotbank. The second was a motor ship that was built in 1967, sold in 1979, and scuttled in 1993.[1]
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