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20 August, 2008
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HMS Musketeer (G 86)

Destroyer of the M class

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	M
Pennant	G 86
Built by	Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Govan, Scotland)
Ordered
Laid down	7 Dec, 1939
Launched	2 Dec, 1941
Commissioned	18 Sep, 1942
End service
Loss position

History	Sold to be broken up for scrap on 6 December 1955. Commanding Officers: Cdr. Donald Thorn Dowler, RN 16 June 1942 - December 1942 Cdr. Edmund Neville Vincent Currey, DSC, RN December 1942 - 6 October 1943 Cdr. Ralph Lindsay Fisher, OBE, DSO, RN 6 October 1943 - 20 February 1945 DSC awarded on 5 January 1944 Cdr. Geoffrey Mainwaring Sladen, DSO and Bar, DSC, RN 20 February 1945 - August 1945 Cdr. Robert Marriott Aubrey, DSC, RN August 1945 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List

Noteable events involving Musketeer include:

8 Oct, 1943
HMS Musketeer (Cdr. R.L. Fisher, OBE, DSO, RN) picks up 44 survivors from the Polish destroyer ORP Orkan that was torpedoed and sunk south-west of Iceland in position 56º30'N, 26º26'W by the German submarine U-378.