Allied Warships
HMS Stormking (W 87)
Rescue Tug of the Assurance class
HMS Stormking as seen during the war.
Photograph with thanks to Peter Wharton.
| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Rescue Tug |
| Class | Assurance |
| Pennant | W 87 |
| Built by | Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 30 Jul, 1942 |
| Launched | 24 Nov, 1942 |
| Commissioned | 29 Mar, 1943 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
| History | Launched as Stormcock but renamed Stormking before commissioning.
Became the dockyard tug Tryphon in 1947. Sold on 1 July 1957 and renamed Melanie Fair. Sold in 1961 to Imprese Maritime e Portuali in Genoa, Italy and renamed Toro. Broken for scrap in the spring of 1969. |
| Former name | Stormcock |