BEE HMS 1915
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 9:15 pm
Built as a gunboat under yard No 295 by Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., Troon, Scotland for the Royal Navy.
February 1915 ordered.
08 December 1915 launched as the HMS BEE (P-99) One of the insect class.
Tonnage 660 grt, 645 nrt. Displacement 625 tons. Dim. 72.0 x 10.97 x 2.62m., draught 1.22m.
Powered by 3-cyl. triple expansion steam engines, 2,000 ihp, twin shafts, speed 14 knots.
Armament 2 – 6 inch, 2 – 12 pdr. and 6 machine guns.
Crew 53.
16 March 1916 commissioned.
HMS BEE was an Insect class gunboat of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 December 1915. This class are also known as "Large China Gunboats".
Initially built for service on the River Danube, after World War I the Insects were transported to China and served on the Yangtze River. In 1920, BEE became the flagship of the Yangtze patrol.
On 12 December 1937, BEE, along with LADYBIRD, became involved in the Panay incident and came under fire from a Japanese artillery unit near Wuhu on the Yangtze. LADYBIRD took six shells and BEE dodged a shell as she came upon the scene.
Bee was paid off in 1938 when the gunboat SCORPION, the new flagship, arrived. She was sold in Shanghai for scrap on 22 March 1939 for £5,225.
Guyana 2015 $80 sg?, scott?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bee_(1915) Internet .
February 1915 ordered.
08 December 1915 launched as the HMS BEE (P-99) One of the insect class.
Tonnage 660 grt, 645 nrt. Displacement 625 tons. Dim. 72.0 x 10.97 x 2.62m., draught 1.22m.
Powered by 3-cyl. triple expansion steam engines, 2,000 ihp, twin shafts, speed 14 knots.
Armament 2 – 6 inch, 2 – 12 pdr. and 6 machine guns.
Crew 53.
16 March 1916 commissioned.
HMS BEE was an Insect class gunboat of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 December 1915. This class are also known as "Large China Gunboats".
Initially built for service on the River Danube, after World War I the Insects were transported to China and served on the Yangtze River. In 1920, BEE became the flagship of the Yangtze patrol.
On 12 December 1937, BEE, along with LADYBIRD, became involved in the Panay incident and came under fire from a Japanese artillery unit near Wuhu on the Yangtze. LADYBIRD took six shells and BEE dodged a shell as she came upon the scene.
Bee was paid off in 1938 when the gunboat SCORPION, the new flagship, arrived. She was sold in Shanghai for scrap on 22 March 1939 for £5,225.
Guyana 2015 $80 sg?, scott?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bee_(1915) Internet .