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Allied Warships

HMS Tumby (FY 850)

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 850 
Built byHawthorns & Co., Ltd. (Leith, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched, 1918 
CommissionedMar, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted on 9 May 1918.
Taken over by the Admiralty in March 1942.
Displacement: 204 tons.
Armament: 1 3pdr gun.

Returned to her owner in April 1945. 


Noteable events involving Tumby include:

19 Dec, 1939
Tumby (Skipper J.W. Greengrass) picks up survivors from the British merchant City of Kobe that was sunk near Cross Sand Buoy, Great Yarmouth in position 52º35'N, 01º59'E after hitting a mine laid on 15 December 1939 by the German submarine U-60.


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