Allied Warships

HMS Northern Wave (FY 153)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 153 
Built byDeschimag (Bremerhaven, Germany) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched 
CommissionedSep 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Completed in July 1936.
Taken over by the Admiralty in September 1939.
Displacement: 655 tons.
Armament: 1 4" gun.

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

 

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Noteable events involving Northern Wave include:


25 Mar 1940
HMT Northern Wave (Lt. G.P.S. Lowe, RNVR) and HMT Brontes (Cdr. T.St.V.F. Tyler (retired), RN) together pick up 29 survivors from the British tanker Daghestan that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-57 nine nautical miles east of Copinsay, Orkneys in position 58º47'N, 02º46'W.

16 Apr 1942
HMT Northern Wave (T/Lt. W.G. Pardoe-Matthews, RNR) picks up 28 survivors from the British merchant Empire Howard that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-403 north-west of North Cape in position 73º48'N, 21º50'E.

3 Feb 1943
HMT Northern Wave (T/Lt. W.G. Pardoe-Matthews, RNR) picks up 4 survivors from the American merchant Greylock that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-255 in the Norwegian Sea in position 70º52'N, 00º21'W. The Greylock was later sunk by gunfire by one of the escorts.

17 May 1943
HMT Northern Wave (T/Lt. J.P. Kilbee, RNR) picks up survivors from the British merchant Aymeric that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-657 east of Cape Farewell in position 59º42'N, 41º39'W.

8 Sep 1944
HMT Northern Wave (T/Lt. F.J.R. Storey, RNVR) picks up 51 survivors from the British tanker Empire Heritage and 41 survivors from the British rescue ship Pinto that were torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-482 north-northeast of Tory Island in position 55º27'N, 08º01'W.

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