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HMS Meteor (G 73)

Destroyer of the M class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassM 
PennantG 73 
Built byA. Stephen & Sons Ltd. (Glasgow, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down14 Sep, 1940 
Launched3 Nov, 1941 
Commissioned12 Aug, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold to the Turkish Navy in 1958 being renamed Piyale Pasa.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Dermod James Boris Jewitt, RN
30 June 1942 – 20 October 1944

Lt.Cdr. Richard Dickon Herbert Stephen Pankhurst, RN
20 October 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List
DSC awarded on 24 July 1945 


Noteable events involving Meteor include:

30 Jan, 1944
The German submarine U-314 was sunk in the Barents Sea south-east of Bear Island, Norway, in position 73º41'N, 24º30'E, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Whitehall (Lt.Cdr. P.J. Cowell, DSC, RN) and HMS Meteor (Lt.Cdr. D.J.B. Jewitt, RN). (see map)


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