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What were the Royal Navy's last wooden vessels?

Second World War minesweepers and trawler types are tentative candidates, with smaller wooden boats treated separately.

Question

What were the last wooden ships built for the Royal Navy?

Short answer

Wooden or wood-based minesweepers and trawlers from the Second World War era are tentative candidates, while naval boats continued to be built in wood.

Notes

Second World War minesweepers and trawler types are tentative candidates for the Royal Navy's last wooden or partly wooden ships. Larger vessels must be distinguished from the many boats that continued to use wood. No individual ship is conclusively identified as the last.