Allied Warships

HMS Laurel (T 29)

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantT 29 
Built byCook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched15 May 1930 
Commissioned15 Jun 1939 
End service 
History

Completed on 12 June 1930.
Taken over by the Admiralty in November 1935.
Displacement: 590 tons.
Armament: 1 4" gun.

Sold in 1946.
Renamed Strathyre in 1947.
Renamed Patricia Hague in 1951.
Scrapped at Troon on 23 May 1955.

 

Commands listed for HMS Laurel (T 29)

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

CommanderFromTo
1Lt. (retired) Idwal Griffiths, RN3 Jul 193918 May 1940
2Skr. Frederick George Blockwell, RNR18 May 194015 Jan 1941
3Lt. William George Pitcher, RNR15 Jan 1941early 1941
4T/Lt. John Webber Walton, RNVRearly 1941mid 1941

5T/Skr. Thomas Wilfred Morgan, RNR22 Jul 19416 Feb 1942
6T/S.Lt. Arthur Leonard Hughes, RNVR6 Feb 194227 Sep 1943
7T/A/S.Lt. William Peris Davies, RNVR27 Sep 194324 Jan 1944
8T/Lt. Donald Fraser, RNVR24 Jan 1944early 1944
9T/S.Lt. William Peris Davies, RNVRearly 194423 May 1944
10T/Lt. Charles Skipworth Holgate, RNVR23 May 19446 Dec 1945

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Notable events involving Laurel include:


3 Nov 1941
HMS Clyde (Cdr. D.C. Ingram, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Gibraltar with HMS Wishart (Cdr. H.G. Scott, RN). Clyde also conducted gunnery exercises on a target that was towed by HMS Laurel (T/Skr. T.W. Morgan, RNR). (1)

Sources

  1. ADM 173/18711

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


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