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Allied Warships

HMS Stella Carina (FY 352)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 352 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched20 Jun, 1936 
CommissionedMay, 1940 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted in August 1936.
Taken over by the Admiralty in May 1940.
Displacement: 440 tons.
Armament: 1 12pdr gun.

Returned to her owner in May 1945.
Renamed Kopanes in 1946.
Renamed Daniel Quare in 1949.
Wrecked 7 nautical miles west-south-west of Langanes, Iceland on 9 September 1955.  


Noteable events involving Stella Carina include:

20 Apr, 1943
HMT Stella Carina and HMT Foxtrot together pick up 61 survivors from the American merchant Michigan that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-565 about 60 nautical miles west of Oran, Algeria in position 35º59'N, 01º25'W.


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