HMS Seagull
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HMS Seagull was a Halcyon-class minesweeper, and the first all-welded Royal Navy ship, built entirely without rivets. The design was ahead of its time, using longitudinal framing and flush butt joints in the hull plating. This gave a substantial improvement in costs and build time, the comparison being the half-sister ship built using rivetted construction on another slipway in the same dockyard. She was designed by Rowland Baker, the influential naval architect who worked on many naval vessels used in World War 2 and into the cold war. She was completed on 30 March 1938.
1938
Wikidata
J85
draft 2.7 metre, beam 10.2 metre,
HMNB Devonport, Royal Navy, United Kingdom, 
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1938-05-30T00:00:00Z
1938-05-30T00:00:00Z
1938 HMS Seagull
1937-10-28T00:00:00Z
1937-10-28T00:00:00Z
ship launching
1937-02-15T00:00:00Z
1937-02-15T00:00:00Z
keel laying
1938-05-30T00:00:00Z
1938-05-30T00:00:00Z
ship commissioning
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