H.M.S. Forres -- originally called Fowey but renamed when first commissioned in 1919 -- was one of a large group of 'Hunt' class minesweepers ordered for the Royal Navy in 1917-18 following the successful completion of twenty earlier 'Hunts' by 1917. Displacing 800 tons and measuring 220 feet in length with a 28½ foot beam, each carried a main armament of 1-4in. gun and 1-12pdr. and could steam at 16 knots. Forres herself was built by the Clyde Shipbuilding Company at Port Glasgow and launched on 22nd November 1918, just eleven days after the Armistice. Completed for sea the following year, her early career was spent clearing the extensive wartime minefields but thereafter her duties were limited and she was broken up in 1935.