TS Kellington, moored on the River Tees, 2007
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Kellington
BuilderPickersgill, Sunderland
Launched12 October 1954
Out of serviceHanded over to Sea Cadets on 23 August 1993
FateScrapped in 2009
General characteristics
Class and typeTon-class minesweeper
Displacement440 tons
Length152 ft (46.3 m)
Beam28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught8 ft (2.4 m)
PropulsionOriginally Mirrlees diesel, later Napier Deltic, producing 3,000 shp (2,200 kW) on each of two shafts
Speed15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Armament

HMS Kellington (M1154) was a Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 October 1954 and named after the village of Kellington in North Yorkshire.

She served as part of 108th mine sweeping squadron based at Malta in 1956, and in January 1957 arrived back in Hythe to join the reserve fleet.

She was converted to a minehunter between 1967 and 1969.

She was decommissioned in 1993 and was handed over to become a training ship for the Sea Cadets on 23 August 1993. She was moored on the River Tees at Stockton on Tees in County Durham.[1] She was purchased outright on 9 February 1999, but closed due to health and safety reasons in 2005.

She was broken up in situ by Able UK in 2009.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Today's News". HMS Kellington Association. 24 April 2009. Archived from the original on 17 August 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
  2. ↑ "TS Kellington". Teesside Gazette. 7 September 2009. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
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