Allied Warships

HMS Warwickshire (FY 113)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 113 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched9 Mar 1936 
CommissionedOct 1939 
Lost30 Apr 1940 
History

Completed in March 1936.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Displacement: 466 tons.

HMT Warwickshire (Cdr. York McLeod Cleeves, RNR) was sunk by German aircraft off Trondheim, Norway on 30 April 1940.

Raised by the Germans on 1 June 1940 and commissioned by them as NKi09/Alane. She was sunk on 19 July 1943 near Namvik, northern Norway by the Soviet submarine S-56.

 

Commands listed for HMS Warwickshire (FY 113)

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CommanderFromTo
1Cdr. (retired) Stephen Hewitt Sutton Moxley, RN2 Oct 1939Apr 1940
2Cdr. York McLeod Cleeves, DSC, RD, RNRApr 194030 Apr 1940

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