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Allied Warships

HMS Rutlandshire

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
Pennant 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched9 Aug, 1936 
CommissionedSep, 1939 
Lost20 Apr, 1940 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted in September 1936.
Taken over by the Admiralty in September 1939.
Displacement: 458 tons.

HMT Rutlandshire (Lt.Cdr. A.H. Davies, RNVR) was sunk by German aircraft off Namsos, Norway on 20 April 1940.

For more info on the Rutlandshire, and much more, see this website (offsite link). 

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