Allied Warships

HMS Cape Palliser (FY 256)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 256 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched3 Sep 1936 
CommissionedNov 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Completed in October 1936.
Taken over by the Admiralty on 29 September 1939.
Displacement: 497 tons.
Armament: 1 4" gun.

Returned to her owner in September 1945.
Scrapped at Dunston in 1963.

 

Commands listed for HMS Cape Palliser (FY 256)

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CommanderFromTo
1Skr. Samuel Phimister, RNR24 Nov 1939Sep 1940
2T/Lt. Dennis Charles Hayes, RNVRSep 1940Jun 1941
3T/Lt. George Ellerton Postgate Morris, RNRJun 194116 Oct 1941
4Lt. Bernard Theodore Wortley, RNR16 Oct 1941Nov 1944
5T/Lt. Stanley Rodger Pearson, RNVRNov 1944

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