Allied Warships

HMS Wilna (FY 323)

Armed Yacht

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeArmed Yacht
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 323 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.)  
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched30 May 1934 
Commissioned 
Lost24 Mar 1941 
History

Displacement: 117 tons.
Purchased by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Served in A/S role.

Bombed and sunk by German aircraft off Portsmouth on 24 March 1941.

 

Commands listed for HMS Wilna (FY 323)

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CommanderFromTo
1Cdr. (retired) Arthur Dru Drury Smyth, DSO, RN8 Nov 193926 Feb 1941
2T/Lt. Llewellyn Winston Cleverley, RNR26 Feb 194124 Mar 1941

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Notable events involving Wilna include:


7 Jan 1941
HMS Unbeaten (Lt. E.A. Woodward, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Portsmouth with HMS Vanoc (Lt.Cdr. J.G.W. Deneys, RN) and HMS Wilna (Cdr.(Retd.) A.D.D. Smyth, DSO, RN). (1)

8 Jan 1941
HMS Unbeaten (Lt. E.A. Woodward, RN) conducted independent exercises off Portsmouth. These were followed by A/S exercises with HMS Wilna (Cdr.(Retd.) A.D.D. Smyth, DSO, RN). (1)

20 Jan 1941
HMS Unbeaten (Lt. E.A. Woodward, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Portsmouth with HMS Wilna (Cdr.(Retd.) A.D.D. Smyth, DSO, RN). (1)

21 Jan 1941
HMS Unbeaten (Lt. E.A. Woodward, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Portsmouth with HMS Wilna (Cdr.(Retd.) A.D.D. Smyth, DSO, RN). (1)

Sources

  1. ADM 173/17106

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


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