Allied Warships

HMS Northern Pride (FY 105)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 105 
Built byDeschimag (Bremerhaven, Germany) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched 
CommissionedSep 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Completed in June 1936.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Displacement: 655 tons.
Armament: 1 4" gun, 2 .5" AA (1x2), 2 MG AA (2x1).

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

 

Commands listed for HMS Northern Pride (FY 105)

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CommanderFromTo
1Skr. Horace Charles Aisthorpe, RNR27 Sep 193927 Mar 1940
2T/Lt. Andrew Alan Campbell, RNR27 Mar 194027 Aug 1941
3Lt. Patrick Varwell Collings, RNR27 Aug 194113 Nov 1941
4T/Lt. Albert Richard Cornish, RNR13 Nov 194110 Sep 1942
5T/Lt. Alfred Leslie Ferdinand Bell, RNR10 Sep 194211 Dec 1943
6T/Lt. David Oliver Humphreys, RNVR11 Dec 1943

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Noteable events involving Northern Pride include:


5 Mar 1943
HMS Northern Pride (T/Lt. A.L.F. Bell, RNR) picks up 42 survivors from the American merchant Executive that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-255 in the Norwegian Sea in position 72º44'N, 11º27'E.

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