Allied Warship Commanders


Alwyn Phillips Hughes DSC, RNR

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Ranks

11 Sep 1940T/Lt.
???T/A/Lt.Cdr.

Decorations

30 Jul 1942DSC

Warship Commands listed for Alwyn Phillips Hughes, RNR


ShipRankTypeFromTo
HMS Blackfly (FY 117)T/Lt.ASW TrawlerOct 194030 Oct 1944
HMS Hyderabad (K 212)T/A/Lt.Cdr.Corvette26 Jan 1945Jul 1945 ?

Career information

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Events related to this officer

ASW Trawler HMS Blackfly (FY 117)


20 Oct 1940
HMS Blackfly (Lt. A.P. Hughes, RNR) picks up 37 survivors from the British tanker Shirak that is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-48 about 90 nautical miles south-west of Rockall in position 57º00'N, 16º53'W.

15 May 1944
The German submarine U-731 was sunk in the mid-Atlantic near Tangier, in position 35º54'N, 05º45'W, by depth charges from the British patrol vessel HMS Kilmarnock (T/A/Lt.Cdr. K.B. Brown, RNVR), the British anti-submarine trawler HMS Blackfly (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A.P. Hughes, DSC, RNR) and 2 US Catalina aircraft (VP-63/P-12/P-1).

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