HMT Vizalma (FY286)
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HMT Vizalma was an anti-submarine warfare naval trawler of the Royal Navy during the Second World War.[2] She spent the war escorting convoys in the Atlantic and Arctic, including the famous convoy JW 51B.
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Name | HMT Vizalma |
Builder | Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley |
Launched | 11 April 1940 |
Requisitioned: | 15 June 1940[1] |
Completed | 12 August 1940 |
Decommissioned | 23 December 1945 |
Fate | Returned to original owners and eventually scrapped from 4 November 1964 |
General characteristics [2][3] | |
Displacement | 608 tons |
Length | |
Beam | 30.8 ft 8 in (9.59 m) |
Propulsion | Triple expansion steam reciprocating engines by C. D. Holmes, 165 NHP |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 5 officers and 55 crew[4] |
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