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Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	ASW Trawler
Class
Pennant	FY 223
Built by	Smiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.)
Ordered
Laid down
Launched	24 Nov, 1934
Commissioned	Sep, 1939
End service
Loss position

History	Completed in December 1934. Taken over by the Admiralty in September 1939. Displacement: 422 tons. Returned to her owner in March 1946. Wrecked off Breibuster Head, Hoy Sound on 22 Marh 1953.

Noteable events involving Leicester City include:
4 May, 1940
HMT Leicester City (T/Lt. A.R. Cornish, RNR) picks up 40 survivors from the British tanker San Tiburcio that was sunk 4 nautical miles south-east of Tarbett Ness, Moray Firth in position 57º46'N, 03º45'W after hitting a mine laid on 10 February 1940 by the German submarine U-9.
7 May, 1945
HMT Valse and HMT Leicester City together pick up 19 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Sneland I that was torpedoed and sunk near May Island in the Firth of Forth in position 56º10'N, 02º31'W by the German submarine U-2336.

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