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	HMS Blackpool
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Blackpool
Laid down	19 September 1939
Launched	4 July 1940
Commissioned	3 February 1941
Decommissioned	July 1946
Stricken	July 1946
Fate	Transferred to Norway, late 1946
Norway
Name	HNoMS Tarna
Commissioned	9 September 1946
Stricken	1 May 1961
Identification	M-310
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Bangor-class minesweeper
Displacement	605 tons
Length	162 ft (49.4 m)
Beam	28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught	8.25 ft (2.51 m)
Propulsion	2 shafts, 9-cylinder diesel, 2,000 bhp (1,500 kW)
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement	60
Armament	1 × QF 12-pounder 3 in (76.2 mm) gun; 1 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) Vickers machine gun Mark III;

HMS Blackpool (J27) was a British Bangor-class minesweeper that served in World War II. She was paid off and sold to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1946.

History

Royal Navy

Second World War

HMS Blackpool was ordered on 6 July 1939 from Harland and Wolff, and laid down at Govan shipyard, Glasgow on 19 September 1939. She was launched on 4 July 1940 and commissioned on 3 February 1941. She was named after the English coastal town Blackpool, and was the first vessel to carry that name.^[1]

Following her work-up, she served on escort and minesweeping duties in the English Channel for most of the war.^[1]

Post war duties

Blackpool continued mine clearing duties near Plymouth until July 1946, when she was paid off to reserve status, and sold to the Royal Norwegian Navy later that year.^[2]

Royal Norwegian Navy

Blackpool was purchased and renamed Tarna by the Royal Norwegian Navy, and remained on the active register of ships until being struck in May 1961.^[3]