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HMS Mansfield (G 76)

Destroyer of the Town class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassTown 
PennantG 76 
Built byBath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down28 Dec, 1917 
Launched30 Oct, 1918 
Commissioned23 Oct, 1940 
End service22 Jun, 1944 
Loss position
 
Historyfrom December 1940 to March 1942 loaned to Royal Norwegian Navy as HNoMS Mansfield (G 76).
from September 1942 to June 1944 loaned to Royal Canadian Navy
decommissioned on 22 June 1944 and sold for scrap at Vancouver.

Commanding Officer:
Lt.Cdr. W.A.R. Cartwright, RN
23 October 1940 - December 1940 

Former nameUSS Evans (DD 78)

Noteable events involving Mansfield include:

17 Mar, 1943

HMS Mansfield (Lt.Cdr. L.C. Hill, OBE, RNR) picks up 61 survivors from the Dutch merchant Terkoelei that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-631 in the North Atlantic in position 51º45'N, 31º15'W.

HMS Mansfield also picks up 16 survivors from the American merchant Irénée Du Pont that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-600 in the North Atlantic in position 50º36'N, 34º30'W. The abandoned Irénée Du Pont was later sunk by the German submarine U-91 in position 50º38'N, 34º46'W.


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