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{{short description|Minesweeper of the Royal Navy}}

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|Ship image= HMS Belvoir (1917) IWM SP 109.jpg
|Ship caption=[[Sister ship]] HMS ''Belvoir'' circa. 1917–1918
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| Ship country             = United Kingdom
| Ship flag                = [[File:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|60px|RN Ensign]]
| Ship name                = HMS ''Saltburn''
| Ship namesake            = [[Saltburn-by-the-Sea]]
| Ship ordered             =
| Ship builder             = [[Murdoch and Murray]]
| Ship laid down           = 29 January 1918
| Ship launched            = 9 October 1918
| Ship completed           = 31 December 1918
| Ship decommissioned      = 
| Ship in service          =
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| Ship reinstated          =
| Ship honours             = 
| Ship fate                = Sold for [[ship breaking|scrap]], 16 November 1946
| Ship notes               = [[Pennant number]] N52
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{{Infobox ship characteristics
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|Header caption= (1939)
|Ship class={{sclass2|Hunt|minesweeper|1||1916}}
|Ship displacement= {{convert|710|LT|t|0}}
|Ship length={{convert|231|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} 
|Ship beam={{convert|28|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught={{convert|8|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=*2 shafts
*2 [[Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion|Vertical triple-expansion steam engines]]
*[[Yarrow Shipbuilders|Yarrow]] [[water-tube boiler]]s 
|Ship speed={{convert|16|kn|lk=in}}
|Ship range={{convert|1500|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|10|kn}} 
|Ship complement=74
|Ship power={{convert|2200|ihp|lk=in|abbr=on}}
|Ship armament=*1 × [[British ordnance terms#QF|QF]] [[QF 4 inch naval gun Mk IV, XII, XXII|{{convert|4|in|mm|adj=on|0}}]] gun forward
*1 × [[12-pounder gun|QF 12-pounder]] aft
*2 × .303 inch [[machine gun]]s
|Ship notes=
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'''HMS''' '''''Saltburn''''' was a {{sclass2|Hunt|minesweeper|||1916}} built for the [[Royal Navy]] during [[World War I]]. Named after the [[town]] of [[Saltburn-by-the-Sea]] in [[North Yorkshire]], she was not completed until after the end of the war. The ship saw no active service during [[World War II]] as she spent the war as a [[training ship]]. ''Saltburn'' was sold for [[ship breaking|scrap]] in 1946, but was wrecked while under tow.

''Saltburn'' was built by [[Murdoch and Murray]] of [[Port Glasgow]] and her [[keel]] was laid down on 29 January 1918. She was launched on 9 October 1918 and completed on 31 December 1918. The ship was armed with a [[British ordnance terms#QF|QF]] {{convert|4|in|0|adj=on}} gun forward and a [[12-pounder gun|QF 12-pounder]] [[Anti-aircraft warfare|anti-aircraft]] gun aft.

In the 1930s, ''Saltburn'' was the RN Signal School's tender. A prototype [[Type 79 radar|Type 79X radar]] was installed in October 1936 and its antennas were strung between the ship's masts. They detected an aircraft at an altitude of {{convert|500|ft}} and a range of {{convert|17|nmi|lk=in}} during tests in July 1937.<ref>Swords, pp. 87–88.</ref> The ship spent World War II as the tender for {{HMS|Dryad|shore establishment|6}}, the Royal Navy's navigation school.

After the war, ''Saltburn'' ran aground off [[Horse Sand Fort]] on 26 October 1945 and was declared a [[constructive total loss]]. She was sold for scrap on 16 November 1946, but was wrecked around 2 miles south of Hartland Point, Devon, the following month while under tow.<ref>Lenton, p. 251.</ref> 
The wrecking rights were bought by a local man, Jack Gifford. The stairs of the ship still exist in a cottage in Hartland. The cottage is named Saltburn after the ship.

==Notes==
{{Reflist|2}}

==References==
*{{cite book|last=Lenton|first=H. T.|title=British & Commonwealth Warships of the Second World War|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|date=1998|isbn=1-55750-048-7}}
*{{cite book|last=Swords|first=Sean S.|title=Technical History of the Beginnings of Radar|publisher=IEE/Peter Peregrinus|location=London|date=1986|isbn=0-86341-043-X}}

== External links ==
*[http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-22MS-OldHunt-Saltburn.htm Chronologies of War Service of Royal Navy Warships]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120728225310/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=16768 Clydebuilt Database]

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