| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | ASW Trawler |
| Class | Hill |
| Pennant | T 218 |
| Built by | Cook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.) : Holmes |
| Ordered | 28 Nov 1940 |
| Laid down | 12 Mar 1941 |
| Launched | 9 Jul 1941 |
| Commissioned | 23 Dec 1941 |
| Lost | 14 Jun 1944 |
| Loss position | 05.00N, 09.00W (See a map) |
| History | HMT Birdlip (T/Lt. Iorwerth Brian Evan Humphrey, RNVR) was torpedoed and sunk off Greenville, Liberia in approximate position 05º00'N, 09º00'W by the German submarine U-547. Hit by U-boat |
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Noteable events involving Birdlip include:
1 May 1943
HMT Birdlip (Lt. E.N. Groom, RNR) picks up 77 survivors from the British merchant Bandar Shahpour, 39 survivors from the British merchant Corabella and 111 survivors from the British merchant Nagina that were torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-515 about 130 miles southwest of Freetown in position 07º15'N, 13º49'W.
HMS Arran (T/Lt. D.S. Hutton, RNR) and HMS Birdlip together pick up 97 survivors from the British merchant City of Singapore that was torpedoed and sunk in a second attack on the convoy by U-515.