HMT Agate (1933)
HM Trawler Agate | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HM Trawler Agate |
| Owner | Originally built for Boston Deep Sea Fishing and Ice Company Ltd |
| Operator | Royal Navy |
| Builder | Smiths Dock, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough |
| Laid down | 1932 |
| Launched | 18 December 1933 |
| Acquired | By the Royal Navy in 1935 |
| Fate | Became stranded becoming a total Wreck on Haisborough Sands off the Norfolk coast, England |
| Notes | Mercantile Type (First Group) Anti Submarine. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | HM Trawler No: T87 |
| Tonnage | 433 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 157.25 ft (47.93 m) |
| Beam | 26.5 ft (8.1 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Installed power | 3 cylinder triple expansion supplied by Smiths Dock |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Crew | 16 |
HM Trawler Agate was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1935. She was modified from a trawler to be used to carry out anti-submarine work. In 1941 she was with the maintenance reserve at Rosyth, but in August was part of the Royal Navy's escort flotilla with convoy FS559 when she ran aground, becoming a total loss, on Haisborough Sands on 6 August with a loss of sixteen crewmen.