Allied Warships

HMS Forth (F 04)

Submarine Depot Ship of the Maidstone class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeSubmarine Depot Ship
ClassMaidstone 
PennantF 04 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down30 Jun 1937 
Launched11 Aug 1938 
Commissioned14 May 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Based in home waters during the Second World War apart from a brief period in Halifax, Canada in 1941.

She left Singapore for the U.K. on 31 March 1971. She arrived back in the U.K. on 7 June 1971.
Renamed Defiance in 1972.
Scrapped on 25 July 1985.

 

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1Capt. Benjamin Bryant, DSC, DSO, RN5 Feb 194525 Jun 1945

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