Allied Warships

HMS Brontes (FY 118)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 118 
Built byCook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched3 Mar 1934 
CommissionedAug 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Completed on 31 March 1934.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Displacement: 428 tons.

Sold in 1945.
Scrapped at Ghent, Belgium on 20 June 1959. Scrapped at Ghent, Belgium 20 June 1959.

In March 1942 the small village of Slaidburn, England (offsite link) raised money during "Warship Week" to sponsor HMT Brontes.

 

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Noteable events involving Brontes include:


25 Mar 1940
HMT Northern Wave (Lt. G.P.S. Lowe, RNVR) and HMT Brontes (Cdr. T.St.V.F. Tyler (retired), RN) together pick up 29 survivors from the British tanker Daghestan that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-57 nine nautical miles east of Copinsay, Orkneys in position 58º47'N, 02º46'W.

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