HMS Angora

HMS Angora (foreground) loading mines at Grangemouth
History
Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Angora
Ordered5 January 1910
BuilderWm Denny & Bros.
Launched1 December 1910
CommissionedSeptember 1914
Decommissioned15 November 1919
FateBroken up on 30 July 1937
General characteristics
TypeAuxiliary minelayer
Armament
  • 4 x 4.7in single
  • 2 x 6pdr AA

HMS Angora was a British passenger ship which was requisitioned from the Mercantile Marine by the Royal Navy for service as a transport and auxiliary minelayer during World War I.

Description

Angora had a tonnage of 4,288 tons and a maximum speed of 17 knots.[1] While in mercantile service, her main deck was devoted to berthing and amenities for fifty first-class and fifty second-class passengers. Aside from the passengers, Angora was also capable of carrying small amounts of cargo such as mail, though the amount of cargo was limited to increase her speed.[2]

As a minelayer, Angora was armed with three 4.7-inch guns and two 6-pounder anti-aircraft cannons. It could carry a total of 320 mines at a time.[1]

History

Angora was launched at Dumbarton by William Denny & Brothers on 1 December 1910 for the British India Steam Navigation Company. It served as a mail and passenger carrier on the Calcutta–Rangoon line beginning on 20 February 1911.[2][3]

In September 1914, Angora was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a transport ship and carried 1,200 Gurkha soldiers from Mumbai to Marseille in overcrowded conditions. On 27 February 1915, the ship was commissioned as an auxiliary minelayer and deployed to the North Sea.[3] Angora laid her first mines on 10 September 1915 along with HMS Orvieto and HMS Princess Margaret. The three minelayers, escorted by six destroyers and covered by various distant naval forces, successfully laid 1,450 mines off the Amrun bank. They were not hampered by German ships and finished the minefield overnight, returning to Britain by morning.[4][5] The minefield they laid later sank the German light cruiser Graudenz on 21 April 1916.[6]

On 15 November 1919, the ship was decommissioned, refitted, and returned to her previous owners. Angora promptly returned to her role as a passenger ship, carrying 103 passengers from London to Mumbai on 24 January 1920. She ran aground on 14 October 1920, but was refloated with only minor damage. In 1932, she was laid up at Calcutta. On 39 July 1937, she arrived in Japan and was broken up along with her sister ship Arankola after being sold for £42,500.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Cocker, M.P. (1993). Mine Warfare Vessels of the Royal Navy: 1908 to Date. Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing. ISBN 1-85310-328-4. Page 28.
  2. ^ a b "New British India Boat". Lloyd's List Newspaper. 3 December 1910. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  3. ^ a b c White, Chris. "Requisitioned Auxiliary - Angora". Royal Fleet Auxiliary Historical Society. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  4. ^ Monograph No. 30: Home Waters Part V: From July to October 1915 (PDF). Naval Staff Monographs (Historical). Vol. XIV. Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division. 1926. Pages 165–167.
  5. ^ Corbett, Julian S. (1923). Naval Operations: Volume III. History of the Great War. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Pages 127–128.
  6. ^ Monograph No. 32: The Lowestoft Raid: 24th–25th April, 1916 (PDF). Naval Staff Monographs (Historical). Vol. XVI. Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division. 1927. Page 9.

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