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| Ship | Pendants | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Service | Disposal & Fate |
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| ROSAMUND | J439 |
Coll. | 26.04.44 | 20.12.44 | 10.07.45 | 4MSF | Transferred to South Africa ren. BLOEMFONTEIN; 1967 Sunk as target |
| ROSARIO | J219 | H/W | 22.09.42 | 03.04.43 | 09.07.43 | 19MSF Ros. Tr. |
1953 Transferred to Belgium ren. DE MOOR; 1970 B.U. at Bruges |
| ROWENA | J384 (M384) | Lob. | 20.10.43 | 05.06.44 | 06.09.44 | 8MSF 2MSF Pal.P. | 1958 B.U. at Gateshead |
| SEABEAR Ex-RCN St. Thomas |
J333 (M333) | Tor. | 12.07.43 | 06.11.43 | 22.06.44 | 8MSF Pal.P. | 1958 B.U. at Preston |
| SERENE Ex-RCN Leaside |
J354 (M354) | Tor. | 19.07.43 | 18.10.43 | 14.09.44 | 10MSF | 1959 B.U. at Llanelli |
| SKIPJACK Ex-USN AM336 Ex-RN SCORPION Ex-RCN Solebay |
J300 (M17) | Tor. | 19.11.42 | 07.04.43 | 29.04.44 | 5MSF 2MSF Pal P. |
1959 B.U. at Blyth |
| SPANKER | J2268 | H/W | 22.09.42 | 20.04.43 | 20.08.43 | 19MSF Ros.Tr. | 1953 Transferred to Belgium ren. DE BROUWER; 1968 B.U. at Ghent |
| SQUIRREL | J301 | H/W | 21.08.43 | 20.04.44 | 16.08.44 | 6MSF 7MSF | 1945 24 July Mined and sunk off Phuket, Siam |
| STORMCLOUD | J367 (M367) |
Lob. | 04.05.43 | 28.12.43 | 28.04.44 | 18MSF 5MSF 2MSF Pal.P. | 1959 B.U. at Gateshead |
| SYLVIA | J382 (M382) | Lob. | 05.07.43 | 28.02.44 | 17.05.44 | 5MSF 2MSF | 1958 B.U. at Tyneside |
| TANGANYIKA | J383 (M383) | Lob. | 20.09.43 | 12.04.44 | 07.07.44 | 18(3)MSF | 1963 B.U. at Inverkeithing |
| THISBE Ex-USN AM337 |
J302 (M302) |
Tor. | 14.12.42 | 12.04.43 | 08.06.44 | 8MSF | 1957 B.U. at Charlestown |
| TRUELOVE Ex-USN AM338 |
J303 (M303) | Tor. | 07.01.43 | 08.07.43 | 03.04.44 | 5MSF Pal.P. 5FPS | 1957 B.U. at Blyth |
| VESTAL | J215 | H/W | 11.01.43 | 19.06.43 | 24.08.43 | 6MSF 7MSF | 1945 26 July Sunk by Japanese Kamikaze plane off Phuket, Siam |
| WATERWITCH | J304 (M304) | Lob. | 15.08.42 | 22.04.43 | 06.08.43 | 19MSF | 1970 B.U. at Antwerp |
| WAVE | J385 (M385) | Lob. | 17.03.44 | 18.08.44 | 06.08.43 | 10MSF FPF/5FPS | 1962 B.U. at Gateshead |
| WELCOME | J386 (M386) | Lob. | 03.05.44 | 14.11.44 | 20.01.45 | 10MSF FPF/5FPS | 1962 B.U. at Gateshead |
| WELFARE Ex-USN AM339 |
J356 (M356) | Tor. | 08.02.43 | 15.07.43 | 04.04.44 | 5MSF 2MSF Pal.P. Vernon | 1957 B.U. Grays |
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| ROSAMUND | ROSARIO | ROWENA | SEABEAR |
| An allusion to Rosamund the Fair, mistress of Henry II. She died in 1176. (1946). Barry wavy of ten white and blue; within a mascle gold a rose red barbed seeded and slipped proper. | A Spanish prize taken in 1797. (Ship adopted by Carlton, Notts.). (1943). White; a chaplet of eight roses in orle barbed slipped and leaved proper. | From Sir Walter Scott’s novel ‘Ivanhoe’. An original ship’s badge. (1926). Black; a horse’s head couped white. Loyal surtout (Fr): Loyal above all. |
Breeds in the remotest Polar areas. A punning motto for a bear. ‘Ursus’ is Latin for ‘bear’. Early: Green; a seabear proper muzzled gold with a rope red. (1944). Later:Blue; a seabear’s head affronty erased at the neck white. Rursus et rursus: Again and again. |
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| SERENE | SKIPJACK | SPANKER | SQUIRREL |
| A tranquil scene at sea. The design was for a 1918 destroyer. (1919). Blue; over four wavelets a moon in her complement silver. Per saltus attingo: By leaps I strike. |
A fish with unusual attributes. Torpedoes also skip when running awash. (1933). Blue; a skipjack naiant silver. Per saltus attingo: By leaps I strike. |
English gold coin minted 1787-1799: worth a guinea (£1.1s.0d). (Ship adopted by Stalybridge). (1943). Blue; the reverse of a spade guinea gold. | A suitable minesweeper name. (1944). Blue; a plate charged with a squirrel sejant holding a nut proper. By diligence. |
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| STORMCLOUD | SYLVIA | TANGANYIKA | THISBE |
| The mariner’s warning. The motto was for the destroyer of 1918. (1943). Blue; a north storm cone hoisted from halyards proper. Omnibus tempestatibus: In all weathers. |
From Shakespeare’s ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’, Act IV Scene 2. (1944). Blue; a woman’s head couped at the neck proper wreathed about the temple and neck with a chaplet of oak proper. | From the Colonial Coat of Arms. The ship was named in response to the gift of money to Britain in WW2. The country is now Tanzania. (1943). Blue; the head of a giraffe erased at the base of the neck proper. | The lover of Pyramus who committed suicide beside a mulberry tree when she falsely thought Pyramus was dead. (1939). White; a mulberry tree couped proper. |
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| TRUELOVE | VESTAL | WATERWITCH | WAVE |
| A name dating from 1596. (1944). White; a true lover’s knot blue. |
The sacred fire brought by Aeneas to Rome and tended by Vesta, Goddess of the Hearth. (Ship affiliated to Camberley). (1943). Blue; an alter gold inflamed proper. | A kindly (white) variety but on a broomstick nevertheless. (Ship adopted by Didcot). (1943). Per fess wavy white and barry wavy of six blue and white; a witch on a broom volant proper. | Britannia first appeared on copper coins in 1665. (1945). Blue; a representation of Britannia armed with a trident and shield white standing on a rock proper issuant from barry wavy of four white and blue. |
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| WELCOME | WELFARE | ||
| The open door. (1945). Blue; a fort masoned proper with portcullis raised gold. | The name dates from 1350. (1945). White; two sprigs of wild clematis slipped and leaved in saltire proper. |
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