HMS ''Saltburn'' was a 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
scrap
Scrap consists of Recycling, recyclable materials, usually metals, left over from product manufacturing and consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials. Unlike waste, scrap Waste valorization, has monetary ...
in 1946, but was wrecked while under tow.
''Saltburn'' was built by
Murdoch and Murray of
Port Glasgow
Port Glasgow ( gd, Port Ghlaschu, ) is the second-largest town in the Inverclyde council area of Scotland. The population according to the 1991 census for Port Glasgow was 19,426 persons and in the 2001 census was 16,617 persons. The most recen ...
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
QF gun forward and a
QF 12-pounder anti-aircraft
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gun aft.
In the 1930s, ''Saltburn'' was the RN Signal School's tender. A prototype
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 and a range of during tests in July 1937. The ship spent World War II as the tender for , the Royal Navy's navigation school.
After the war, ''Saltburn'' ran aground off
Horse Sand Fort
Horse Sand Fort is one of the larger Royal Commission sea forts in the Solent off Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. The fort is one of four built as part of the Palmerston Forts constructions. It is across, built between 1865 and 1880, with tw ...
on 26 October 1945 and was declared a
constructive total loss
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. She was sold for scrap on 16 November 1946, but was wrecked off
Hartland Point
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the following month while under tow.
[Lenton, p. 251.]
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