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Allied Warships

HMS Northern Gift (4.50)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
Pennant4.50 
Built byDeschimag (Bremerhaven, Germany) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched 
Commissioned, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted in November 1936.
Taken over by the Admiralty in early 1942.
Displacement: 655 tons.

Returned to her owner in October 1945.
Renamed Kari in 1947.
Renamed Gronland in 1950.
Scrapped at Hamburg, Germany on 7 March 1957. 


Noteable events involving Northern Gift include:

21 Apr, 1943
HMT Northern Gift (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A.J. Clemence, RNR) picks up 58 survivors from the British merchant Ashantian that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-415 in the North Atlantic in position 55º46'N, 45º14'W.


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