HMT Elk
[2] She served in the Royal Navy in World War II, until sunk without loss of life having hit a mine off Plymouth in November 1940.Elk was built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell at Beverley, Yorkshire, launched on 21 August 1902, and first operated from Grimsby.Elk was hired by the Admiralty in November 1939 to serve as a danlayer (laying buoys in channels cleared by minesweepers) and was armed with one 6-pounder gun.HMT Elk was sunk by a mine south-east of Penlee Point, Plymouth on 27 November 1940.This article about a specific naval minesweeper of the United Kingdom is a stub.