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Allied Warships

HMS Benvolio (FY 710)

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 710 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched23 Oct, 1930 
CommissionedSep, 1939 
Lost23 Feb, 1940 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted in December 1930.
Taken over by the Admiralty in September 1939.
Displacement: 352 tons.

HMT Benvolio (Chief Skipper Samuel Melhuish Aldred, RNR) was mined off Spurnhead, England on 23 February 1940. 

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