#WORLD OF MINESWEEPER SERIES#
Jane’s says the Ham class, numbered in the 2601 series was of wood. Jane’s and the Bassingham website are not consistent about the building material. of Portsmouth she was 32.5 metres long overall by 6.4 metres beam. HMS Bassingham was one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers. She remained on the Active List of the Royal Norwegian Navy until 1st January 1961 when stricken and later sold for demolition. This minesweeper was sold to Norway later in 1946 and was renamed HM Nor. HMS Bangor remained in commission after VJ Day and continued mine clearance duties in Bristol Channel area until July 1946 when she was paid off and reduced to Reserve status. History: 1941 December Transferred to Harwich with Flotilla for special mine clearance off East Coast with ships of 13th Minesweeping Flotilla On arrival carried out joint minesweeping operations to provide two gaps through British East Coast Mine Barrier and a known German minefield for use by allied destroyers requiring speedy access to North Sea from Harwich. HMS Bangor was a Bangor class minesweeper, launched 23 rd May 1940. The remaining 8 survivors were on a carley raft and thus were not wounded when the depth charges exploded. Of these 32 survivors 24 later died due to internal wounds caused by the detonation of the minesweepers own depth charges, which detonated at their pre-set depth. 32 survivors were rescued by HMS Cadmus and taken to Bougie. The submarine disengaged without suffering any reaction and reached Napoli safely on the 18th. The submarine fired 2 torpedoes aimed at the second vessel in the line and missed, then turned and at 0346 hrs fired a second 2-torpedo salvo, this time against the tail unit. Ascianghi had sailed from Trapani on the 9th for the Bougie area: at 0339 hrs the boat, which had moved to an area closer inshore, spotted a formation of 3 warships’s, initially identified as a cruiser escorted by 2 destroyers, and closed to attack. The minesweeper was taking part in Operation Torch and had been tasked with clearing Bougie Roads from Axis mines, mission which was accomplished successfully with the destruction of 46 mines. Around 0345 hours on 15 November 1942 HMS Algerine was torpedoed and sunk off Bougie, Algeria by the Italian submarine Ascianghi. HMS Algerine was a Algerine class minesweeper launched 22 nd December 1941 by Harland & Wolff. She Paid-off in October 1947 and was reduced to Reserve status at Chatham, Placed on the Disposal List in 1962 she was sold to Bisco for breaking-up by Messrs Cordron and arrived for demolition at Port Glasgow in tow on 9th September 1963. Her final duties were to take part in the destruction of German fortifications at Heligoland, Operation Big Bang with other RN ships in April 1947 and later to carry out further mine clearance based at Cuxhaven. The Flotilla was then withdrawn from service, but this minesweeper was retained for further deployment after a refit at Portsmouth. In June the ship carried out mine clearance in Home waters off the east coast, in the Channel and off the coast of Holland. She sailed from Malta with the rest of the Flotilla on 12th April that year and had a further refit at Chatham in May. On completion in February she resumed mine clearance based at Genoa. Albacore remained in the Mediterranean with the 12th Flotilla after VJ Day and was refitted in Malta during December 1945. History: 1942 August Passage to Harwich to join 9th Minesweeping Flotilla, Pending formation of new Flotilla. HMS Albacore was a Algerine class minesweeper, launched 2nd April 1942 by Harland & Wolff. The Harwich Sub-Command under the overall command of Nore came the vessels of Coastal Forces, of combined operations, destroyers, mine-sweepers of all types, submarines and miscellaneous craft of many kinds, it is as a mine-sweeping base at Harwich itself was pre-eminent during the war years, with some of the finest mine-sweeper flotillas of the Royal Navy operating from its quays and harbour. The first mine casualty in the area came just one week after the start of the war when on September 10 th the ss Magdapur sank close inshore of Thorpeness.
The first mine-sweeper operation performed by the Harwich force was the establishment of the War Channel suitably furnished with lighted buoys, which the Harwich area began due east of the cork lightship 1.5 miles West of Shipwash Bank.
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