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Red Gauntlet


		
Technical
Official Number 163160
Yard Number 578
PennantT 01
Launched September 06 1933
Registered October 12 1933
Gross Tonnage422
Length154.6 ft
Breadth25.6 ft
111 nhp engineC D Holmes
Speed11.4 knots
Armament1 x 12 pdr
Built byCook,Welton & Gemmell, Beverley, 1933
OwnerIago Steam Trawlers Ltd
History
1935 Built as ARAB for Hellyer Bros Ltd, Hull (H516).
November 10 1935 Sold to RN for conversion to Berberis class minesweeper T01 and renamed Cedar.
1946Sold to Iago Steam Trawlers Ltd, London and renamed RED GAUNTLET.
August 10 1947Wrecked on a reef at South Cape, Spitzbergen. All 20 crew and 2 Norwegian gutters safely taken aboard the Grimsby trawler NORTHERN SPRAY (GY 190 655 grt built in 1936).