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Allied Warships

HMS Pearl (T 22)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantT 22 
Built byCook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched18 Dec, 1933 
CommissionedOct, 1935 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryBuilt in 1934.
Taken over by the Admiralty in October 1935.
Displacement: 649 tons.
Armament: 1 4" gun.

Sold 18 April 1946.
Renamed Westella in 1946.
Scrapped at Ghent, Belgium on 18 August 1959. 


Noteable events involving Pearl include:

23 Dec, 1944
HMT Pearl picks up 51 survivors from the British merchant Dumfries that is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-322 south of St.Catherine´s Point, Isle of Wight in position 50º23'N, 01º43'W.


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