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Name: MINORU
Type: Mineweeper
Keel:
Launched: 16/06/1919
Completed: 08/1919
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1072
Dimensions: 1320disp, 258.0 x 35.0 x 10.5(draft)ft; (1920: 1506grt, 906nrt, 258.0 x 34.8 x 23.7ft)
Engines: T4cyl (20.5, 33, 33 & 37 x 30ins), 2500ihp, 207nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 17.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 1 x 4.0ins guns; 39 x depth charges
History:
08/1919 British Royal Navy
1921 Moise Mazza, Southampton, renamed HAIM MAZZA
1922 Renamed ZION
1922 Renamed HAIM MAZZA
1923 Anglo-Oriental Nav Co Ltd, London; renamed ZION
1923 Renamed VIMA
1924 Awanokuni Kyodo Kisen KK, Komatsushima; renamed KYODO MARU NO 28
1940 Toa Kaiun KK, Amagasaki, Japan
04/07/1944 Sank
Comments: A member of the 24 Class, named after winning horses of the Epsom Derby
They were designed to appear double ended to confuse U-Boats
1920: Converted to a cargo ship; ON 145349
04/07/1944: Torpedoed & sunk by USS SEAHORSE, 100 miles
south of Hong Kong, in position 20.18N - 115.02E

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http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/M-Ships/minoru1919.html
Above photo is for illustration and shows sister ship SIR BEVIS. Photo copyright of The Imperial War Museum



Above photo is for illustration and shows sister ship SIR BEVIS. Photo copyright of The Imperial War Museum


Above photo is for illustration and shows sister ship SIR BEVIS. Photo copyright of The Imperial War Museum