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HMS Deptford (L 53 / U 53)

Sloop of the Grimsby class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeSloop
ClassGrimsby 
PennantL 53 / U 53 
Built byDevonport Dockyard (Plymouth, U.K.): J.S. White & Co. (Cowes, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down30 Apr, 1934 
Launched5 Feb, 1935 
Commissioned20 Aug, 1935 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Sold 8 March 1948.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. Charles Alfred Evelyn Stanfield, RN
11 January 1938 – 19 January 1940

Lt.Cdr. George Arthur Thring, RN
19 January 1940 – 3 May 1941
DSO awarded on 1 January 1941

Lt.Cdr. Hugh Robert White, RN
3 May 1941 – 1944 ???

T/A/Lt.Cdr. H.O. Morris, RNR
1944 ??? – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Deptford is not listed in the October 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Deptford include:

9 Feb, 1941
HMS Deptford (Lt.Cdr. G.A. Thring, DSO, RN) picks up 26 survivors from the British merchants Courland and Estrellano that were torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-37 about 160 nautical miles south-west of Cape St. Vincent, Portugal in position 35º53'N, 13º13'W. One of them died of wounds and was buried at sea the next day.

31 May, 1941
HMS Deptford (Lt.Cdr H.R. White, RN) picks up 25 survivors from the British merchant Gravelines which had been torpedoed by U-147 north-west of Bloody Foreland in position 56º00'N, 11º13'W.

21 Sep, 1941
The British merchant Runa is torpedoed and sunk north-north-east of the Azores in position 46º20'N, 22º23'W by the German submarine U-201. HMS Deptford (Lt.Cdr. H.R. White, RN) later picks up 9 survivors.

21 Dec, 1941
The German submarine U-567 was sunk in the North Atlantic north-east of the Azores, in position 44º02'N, 20º10'W, by depth charges from the British sloop HMS Deptford (Lt.Cdr. H.R. White, RN) and the British corvette HMS Samphire (Lt.Cdr. F.T. Renny, DSC, RNR). (see map)


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