Allied Warships

HMS Viviana (FY 238)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 238 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched23 Apr 1936 
CommissionedDec 1939 
End service 
History

Completed in June 1936.
Taken over by the Admiralty in October 1939.
Displacement: 452 tons.

Returned to her owner in May 1946.
Scrapped at Ghent, Belgium in 1963.

 

Commands listed for HMS Viviana (FY 238)

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CommanderFromTo
1Skr. Gunnar Lie Olesen, RNR16 Dec 1939mid 1941

2Skr. George Henry Oliver, RNR2 Jan 1942mid 1942
3T/Skr. Edward Arthur Read, RNRmid 194216 Oct 1942
4Skr. Robert Trueman, RNR16 Oct 19421 Nov 1944
5T/Lt. John Pierson Jones, RNVR1 Nov 1944

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Notable events involving Viviana include:


3 Jan 1940
HMS H 50 (Lt.Cdr.(Retd.) J.R.G. Harvey, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Portland with HMS Viviana (Skr. G.L. Olesen, RNR) and also with HMS Kelvin (Lt.Cdr. J.L. Machin, RN) and HMS Kimberley (Lt.Cdr. R.G.K. Knowling, RN).

Later in the afternoon HMS Kelvin and HMS Kimberley escorted the armed merchant cruiser HMS Dunvegan Castle (Capt.(Retd.) H. Ardill, RN) which was conducting gunnery exercises off Portland. (1)

11 Jan 1940
HMS H 50 (Lt.Cdr.(Retd.) J.R.G. Harvey, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Portland with HMS Viviana (Skr. G.L. Olesen, RNR) and another vessel [unable to read the name in the log of HMS H 50] (2)

9 Dec 1942
HMS P 614 (Lt. H.W. Wilkinson, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Freetown together with HMS Orfasy (T/A/Skr.Lt. G.A. Whichello, DSC, RNR), HMS Le Tiger (T/Lt. C.A. Hoodless, RNR) and HMS Viviana (Skr. R. Trueman, RNR). (3)

12 Dec 1942
HMS P 614 (Lt. H.W. Wilkinson, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Freetown together with HMS Hydrangea (A/Lt.Cdr. J.E. Woolfenden, RD, RNR), FFS Commandant Drogou, HMS Viviana (Skr. R. Trueman, RNR) and HMS Northern Isles (T/Lt. J.M. Baldry, RNVR). (3)

Sources

  1. ADM 53/112094 + ADM 173/16327
  2. ADM 173/16327
  3. ADM 173/17529

ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.


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