H.M.S. Ludlow (1916)

H.M.S. Ludlow (1916)
Admiralty Pendant Number:	897^[1]
Pendant Number:	none^[2]
Builder:	Goole Shipbuilding Company^[3]
Ordered:	Sep 1915^[4]
Launched:	1 May, 1916^[5]
Mined:	29 Dec, 1916^[6]
Fate:	off the Shipwash

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

Service

From August 1916, Ludlow served as one of the six paddle minesweepers then serving under the command of the Admiral of Minesweeping. In this assignment, Ludlow was lost to a mine in the North Sea on 29 December, 1916. Five men lost their lives outright, and one died of wounds on 11 January, 1917.^[7]

Captains

Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command James Kerr, 31 July, 1916^[8] – 29 December, 1916^[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. 304.
↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 395xx.
↑ Hepper. British Warship Losses in the Ironclad Era: 1860-1919. p. 76.