HMT Juniper
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsHMT Juniper (T123) was a Tree-class minesweeping trawler of the Royal Navy. She was built by Ferguson Brothers (Port Glasgow) Ltd. at Port Glasgow, launched on 15 December 1939, and commissioned on 9 March 1940.
A steel vessel of 545 tons, Juniper measured Template:Convert in length with a beam of Template:Convert and a mean draft of Template:Convert A single triple-expansion reciprocating engine of Template:Convert gave her a speed of Template:Convert. The crew numbered 4 officers and 36 men. Armament comprised a 12-pdr AA gun, three 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns, and 30 depth charges.<ref>Robert Gardiner (ed. dir.), Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946, p. 66. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1980</ref>
Juniper served in the early months of the Second World War and was sunk on 8 June 1940 in the Norwegian Sea at the close of the Norwegian Campaign. The previous day the German naval squadron under Vizeadmiral Wilhelm Marschall received Luftwaffe reports of two groups of ships. Marschall decided on his own initiative to attack the southernmost group, which was escorted by Juniper. On the morning of 8 June, Marschall (with the battleships Template:Ship and Template:Ship, heavy cruiser Template:Ship, and four destroyers) intercepted the British ships, sinking Juniper, the tanker Oil Pioneer, and the empty troopship Orama; they spared the hospital ship Atlantis. Juniper was sunk by gunfire from Admiral Hipper.<ref name=richard>Richard Humble, Hitler's High Seas Fleet, p. 57. New York: Ballantine Books, 1971.</ref>
Marschall then sent Admiral Hipper and the destroyers to Trondheim to refuel. Later that same day, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau encountered and sank the aircraft carrier Template:HMS and the destroyers Template:HMS and Template:HMS.<ref name=richard/>
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