Shakespearian-class trawler

The Shakespearian class was a series of anti-submarine naval trawlers built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War, named after Shakespeare characters. Each ship displaced 545 long tons, had a top speed of 12 knots and a crew of 40, and carried a 12-pounder gun, three 20 mm Oerlikon guns and thirty depth charges. The class was nearly identical to the Isles class and is usually treated as a subclass of it. Coriolanus, Horatio and Laertes were lost in the war, Othello went to Italy and Rosalind to Kenya in 1946, and only Hamlet and Macbeth were still in Royal Navy service at the end of that year. Five yards built the twelve ships, and A. & J. Inglis of Glasgow built Romeo and Rosalind.