Allied Warships

HMS Turquoise (T 45)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantT 45 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched7 Mar 1935 
CommissionedNov 1935 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Completed in March 1935.
Taken over by the Admiralty in November 1935.
Displacement: 641 tons.
Armament: 1 4" gun.

Sold in 1946.
Renamed St. Oswald in 1946.
Renamed Woolton in 1950.
Renamed Wyre Woolton in 1954.
Scrapped at Preston in 1957.

 

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Noteable events involving Turquoise include:


19 Jun 1941
HMS Vanessa is damaged by a German aircraft while on patrol in the North Sea. She suffered a direct amidships, blowing up boilers, thr forefunnel was blasted overboard, and the deck opened up. Eleven ratings and the engineer officer were killed and many of the crew were injured and burned. The damaged destroyer collided with anti-submarine trawler HMT Turquoise. Vanessa was towed to Yarmouth by destroyer HMS Vesper.

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