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Allied Warships

HMS Lady Hogarth (4.89)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
Pennant4.89 
Built byCook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched7 Sep, 1937 
CommissionedDec, 1940 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted on 22 October 1937.
Taken over by the Admiralty in December 1940.
Displacement: 472 tons.
Armament: 1 12pdr gun.

Returned to her owner in 1945.
Renamed Kingston Emerald in 1946.
Renamed Staxton Wyke in 1951.
Sunk in a collision 10 nautical miles south of Flamborough Head on 23 August 1959. 


Noteable events involving Lady Hogarth include:

19 Oct, 1941
The British destroyer HMS Duncan (Lt.Cdr. A.N. Rowell, RN) and the British ASW trawlers HMT Lady Hogarth (Lt. S.G. Barnes, RNR) and HMT Haarlem (Lt. L.B. Merrick, RNVR) together pick up 17 survivors from the British tanker Inverlee that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-204 30 nauical miles 240° from Cape Spartel, Marocco.


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