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forthe larger coal-burners of the Grand Fleet. At the end of World War 1, afurther batch of Aberdares wason order (about 43) but these were cancelled. Between the two world wars someof the existing sweepers were converted to other uses, such as surveyingvessels; this entailed making extra space for surveying officers\' chart work,extra boats for surveying officers away on sounding work, etc. These convertedsweepers had their names changed from those of towns to those of well knownnavigators such as Beaufort, Fitzroy,