MV Gay Viking
Blockade runner of the British Merchant Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gay Viking was a blockade runner of the British Merchant Navy. Originally under construction as a Motor Gun Boat, Gay Viking was one of eight vessels that were ordered by the Turkish Navy, but were requisitioned by the Royal Navy to serve with Coastal Forces during the Second World War. Originally intended to be HMMGB 506, the vessel was instead completed as a blockade runner for the Merchant Navy and named Gay Viking. She operated out of Hull on two separate operations to the Scandinavian countries. She was one of the more successful of her group, but was lost in a collision while returning from one of these operations. Reports indicate that she may have been salvaged after this and gone on to sail for a considerable number of years as a civilian vessel.
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Name | MV Gay Viking |
Builder | Camper & Nicholson |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | MGB 502 Motor gunboat |
Displacement | 95 long tons (97 t) |
Length | 117 ft (36 m) |
Beam | 20 ft 3 in (6.17 m) |
Draught | 4 ft 1 in (1.24 m) |
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Speed | |
Range | 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h) |
Complement | 21 |
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