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Allied Warships

HMS Northern Foam (4.76)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
Pennant4.76 
Built byDeschimag (Bremerhaven, Germany) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched 
Commissioned, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted in September 1936.
Taken over by the Admiralty in early 1942.
Displacement: 655 tons.
Armament: 1 4" gun.

Returned to her owner in November 1945.
Scrapped at Dunston in 1964. 


Noteable events involving Northern Foam include:

23 Sep, 1943
HMT Northern Foam (Lt. H.G. Ross) picks up 30 survivors from the British merchant Fort Jemseg and 43 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Skjelbred that were torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-238 in the North Atlantic, south-southeast of Cape Farewell, in position 53º18'N, 40º24'W.


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