Allied Warships

HMS Shepperton (M 83)

Minelayer of the Auxiliary minelayers class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMinelayer
ClassAuxiliary minelayers 
PennantM 83 
Built bySwan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched23 Oct 1934 
Commissioned4 Sep 1939 
End service 1940 
History

Completed as merchantile ferry Shepperton Ferry in March 1935
Requisitioned by the Admiralty on 24 August 1939.
Displacement: 2839 tons.
Lenght: 347 feet
Machinery: 4 boilers, two shafts, Parsons turbines, SHP 4800 = 16.5 knots.
Armament: 1 4" AA gun, 2 .303" AA (2x1), 270 mines.

To the Ministery of War Transport (MoWT) in 1940. 

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