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Allied Warships

HMS Musketeer (G 86)

Destroyer of the M class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassM 
PennantG 86 
Built byFairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Govan, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down7 Dec, 1939 
Launched2 Dec, 1941 
Commissioned18 Sep, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold 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.


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