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HMS Savage (G 20)

Destroyer of the S class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassS 
PennantG 20 
Built byHawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down7 Dec, 1941 
Launched24 Sep, 1942 
Commissioned8 Jun, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryScrapped at Newport 11 April 1962.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. Roderick Cosmo Gordon, DSO, RN
15 March 1943 – 11 December 1943

Cdr. Michael Donston Capel Mayrick, RN
11 December 1943 - June 1944
DSO awarded on 5 January 1944

Lt.Cdr. Charles Wickham Malins, DSO, DSC, RN
June 1944 – 29 August 1945

Lt.Cdr. Eric George May, DSC, RN
29 August 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Savage include:

25 Jan, 1944
HMS Savage (Cdr. M.D.C. Meyrick, DSO, RN) picks up 56 survivors from the American merchant Penelope Barker that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-278 about 115 nautical miles from the North Cape in position 73º22'N, 22º30'E.


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