HMS Cupar (1918)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	Cupar
Builder:	A McMillan & Son, Dumbarton
Launched:	27 March 1918
Fate:	Sunk 5 May 1919 by a mine in the North Sea[1] off the Tyne
General characteristics
Class and type:	Hunt-class minesweeper, Aberdare sub-class
Displacement:	710 tons
Length:	231 ft (70 m)
Beam:	28 ft (9 m)
Draught:	8 ft (2 m)
Propulsion:	Yarrow boilers Vertical triple-expansion engines 2 shafts, 2,200 ihp (1,641 kW)
Speed:	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) max
Range:	140 tons coal
Complement:	73
Armament:	1 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) forward QF 76 mm (3.0 in) aft 2 × twin 0.303 inch machine guns

HMS Cupar was a Hunt-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy from World War I. She was originally to be named Rosslare, but was renamed before launch to avoid possible misunderstandings of having vessels named after coastal locations.

See also

• Cupar, Fife, Scotland

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.