H.M.S. Redcar (1916)

H.M.S. Redcar (1916)
Admiralty Pendant Number:	902^[1]
Pendant Number:	none^[2]
Builder:	Ayrshire^[3]
Ordered:	Jan 1916^[4]
Launched:	31 Jul, 1916^[5]
Mined:	24 Jun, 1917^[6]
Fate:	off Dover

H.M.S. Redcar was one of thirty-two Ascot Class paddle minesweepers completed for the Royal Navy.

Service

Redcar was sunk with the loss of seven lives in a minefield in the Dover Strait. The destroyer Tartar was heavily damaged in the same field, and the paddle sweeper Kempton was also sunk.^[7]

Captains

Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Alexander Daniells, 14 November, 1916^[8] – 24 June, 1917^[9] (ship lost under his command)

Footnotes

↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111. See this note for more info.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 111.
↑ Kindell. Royal Navy Roll of Honour Part 2. p. 370.
↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 397g.
↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 94.