Allied Warships

HMS Lord Lloyd (FY 157)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 157 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched10 Jul 1933 
CommissionedOct 1939 
End service 
History

Completed in September 1933.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Displacement: 396 tons.

Returned to her owner in September 1945.
Scrapped at Troon in 1964.

 

Commands listed for HMS Lord Lloyd (FY 157)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Frederick John Gwynn Jones, RNR29 Oct 193917 Apr 1940
2Lt. Frederick Harold Thornton, RNR17 Apr 1940late 1940
3T/Lt. Maurice William Bond, RNVRlate 194028 Mar 1944
4T/A/Lt.Cdr. A Flaaten, RNR28 Mar 1944Early 1945

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Notable events involving Lord Lloyd include:


11 Oct 1939
HMS H 44 (Lt. H.A.V. Haggard, RN) conducted exercises off Portland with HMS Lord Lloyd (Lt.Cdr. F.J.G. Jones, RNR). (1)

11 Mar 1940
Convoy MT 28 (21 ships) departed Methil for the Tyne where it arrived the next day. It was escorted by trawlers from the 19th A/S Group (This group was made up of four A/S trawlers; HMS Greenfly (Cdr.(Retd.) D.A. Stride, RN), HMS Lord Lloyd (Lt.Cdr. F.J.G. Jones, RNR), HMS Lord Plender (Ch.Skr. J.M.T. Brebner, RNR) and HMS Stella Pegasi (Skr. J.H.D. Dansie, RNR). This last trawler was in dockyard hand at Leith and therefore could not have been part of the escort). The destroyers destroyers HMS Jervis (Capt. P.J. Mack, RN) and HMS Jaguar (Lt.Cdr. J.F.W. Hine, RN) were also part of the escort. (2)

9 Aug 1941
HrMs O 14 (Lt.Cdr. G. Quint, RNN(R)) departed Scapa Flow for Lerwick where she arrived later the same day. She was escorted by the British ASW trawler HMS Lord Lloyd (T/Lt. M.W. Bond, RNVR). (3)

28 Nov 1941
HMS Trident (Cdr. G.M. Sladen, DSC, RN) ended her 23th war patrol at Lerwick. She departed for Blyth later the same day. She made (part) of the passage together with the Free French submarine FFS Minerve. They were escorted by HMS Lord Lloyd (T/Lt. M.W. Bond, RNVR).

20 May 1942
HrMs O 14 (Lt.Cdr. H.A.W. Goossens, RNN) conducted A/S exercises at / off Scapa Flow with HMS Derwent (Cdr. R.H. Wright, DSC, RN), HMS Bleasdale (Lt. P.B.N. Lewis, RN), HMS Lord Lloyd (T/Lt. M.W. Bond, RNVR) and HMS Stoke City (Lt. D.P. Piggford, RNR). (4)

16 Jul 1942
HMS Trident (Lt. A.R. Hezlet, DSC, RN) departed from Scapa Flow bound for Lerwick. She made the passage together with HNoMS Uredd (Lt. R.O. Rören). They were escorted by HMS Lord Lloyd (T/Lt. M.W. Bond, RNVR). (5)

19 Jul 1942
HMS Tribune (Lt. N.J. Coe, DSC, RNR) departed from Lerwick for Blyth escorted by the trawler HMS Lord Lloyd (T/Lt. M.W. Bond, RNVR). (6)

21 Jan 1943
HrMs O 15 (Lt. A.J. Schouwenaar, RNN) departed Scapa Flow for Lerwick. She was escorted by the British ASW trawler HMS Lord Lloyd (T/Lt. M.W. Bond, RNVR). (7)

6 Feb 1943
HrMs O 19 (Lt.Cdr. H.F. Bach Kolling, RNN(R)) departed Holy Loch for Dundee. She made part of the passage together with the British submarine HMS P 31 (Lt. L.E. Herrick, DSC, RN) which was en-route to Scapa Flow. They were escorted by HMS Pennyworth (T/Lt. R.A. Mason, RNVR). Off Scapa Flow, HMS Lord Lloyd (T/Lt. M.W. Bond, RNVR), took over the escort of HrMs O 19. (8)

10 Feb 1943
HrMs O 19 (Lt.Cdr. H.F. Bach Kolling, RNN(R)) shifted from Dundee to Rosyth. She was escorted by HMS Lord Lloyd (T/Lt. M.W. Bond, RNVR). (9)

1 Nov 1944
HMS Virulent (Lt. S.J. Fovargue, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Scapa Flow with HMS Cowdray (Lt. D.J. Beckley, DSO, DSC, RN), HMS Lord Lloyd (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A. Flaaten, RNR) and HMS Bute (T/A/Lt.Cdr. T. Costley, RNVR). (10)

2 Nov 1944
HMS Virulent (Lt. S.J. Fovargue, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Scapa Flow with HMCS Iroquois (Cdr. J.C. Hibbard DSC, RCN), HMS Caesar (Capt. G.N. Brewer, DSO, RN), HMS Lord Lloyd (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A. Flaaten, RNR) and HNoMS Risor. (10)

22 Nov 1944
HMS Taciturn (Lt.Cdr. E.T. Stanley, DSO, DSC, RN) departed from Scapa Flow for Holy Loch. She is escorted by HMS Lord Lloyd (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A. Flaaten, RNR). (11)

Sources

  1. ADM 173/15740
  2. ADM 199/362
  3. File 2.12.03.6387 (Dutch Archives, The Hague, Netherlands)
  4. File 2.12.03.6389 (Dutch Archives, The Hague, Netherlands)
  5. ADM 199/424
  6. ADM 173/17639
  7. File 2.12.03.6397 (Dutch Archives, The Hague, Netherlands)
  8. ADM 199/627
  9. File 2.12.27.139 (Dutch Archives, The Hague, Netherlands)
  10. ADM 173/19411
  11. ADM 173/18917

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


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