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Name | HMS Mallow |
Builder | Barclay Curle, Glasgow |
Launched | 13 July 1915 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Australian Navy, 1919 |
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Name | HMAS Mallow |
Acquired | 1919 |
Decommissioned | 20 November 1925 |
Fate | Sunk as a target, 24 April 1935 |
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Class and type | Acacia-class sloop |
Displacement | 1,200 long tons (1,219 t) |
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Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draught | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
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Range | 2,000 nmi (3,700 km; 2,300 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) with max. 250 tons of coal |
Complement | 77 |
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HMS Mallow was an Acacia-class sloop built for the Royal Navy, and later operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as HMAS Mallow.
Construction
[edit]Mallow was constructed by Barclay Curle at Glasgow in Scotland. She was launched on 13 July 1915.
Operational history
[edit]World War I
[edit]During World War I, the sloop was tasked primarily with minesweeping. On 31 December 1915, Mallow picked up the bulk of the survivors of the passenger ship Persia[1] (which had been torpedoed the day before off Crete) and conveyed them to Alexandria. In 1918, Mallow rescued the passengers of the French mailboat Djemnah, including future acting Governor-General of Madagascar Joseph Guyon, after the mailboat was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Mallow later received letters of commendation from the Admiralty and Guyon.
With the RAN
[edit]The sloop was transferred to the RAN in 1919.
Decommissioning and fate
[edit]Mallow paid off to reserve on 18 October 1919, was decommissioned on 20 November 1925, and sunk as a target on 24 April 1935.
References
[edit]- ^ "2 January 1916 – Ted – The Sinking of the Persia". familyletters.co.uk. Retrieved 12 January 2017.