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HMS Cayton Wyke (FY 191)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 191 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched20 Jun, 1932 
Commissioned, 1939 
Lost8 Jul, 1940 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted in August 1932.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August or September 1939.
Displacement: 373 tons.
Armament: 1 12pdr gun.

HMS Cayton Wyke (Ch/Skr. David Forbes Noble, DSC, RNR) was sunk by a German motor torpedo boat off Goodwin Sands in the English Channel on 8 July 1940.  


Noteable events involving Cayton Wyke include:

25 Oct, 1939
The German submarine U-16 was sunk in the English Channel near Dover, in position 51º09'N, 01º28'E, by depth charges from the British ASW trawler HMS Cayton Wyke (Ch/Skr. D.F. Noble, RNR) and the patrol vessel HMS Puffin (Lt.Cdr. Hon. J.M.G. Waldegrave, RN). (see map)


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