Allied Warships

HMS Unitia (FY 1852)

MS Trawler

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	MS Trawler
Class	[No specific class]
Pennant	FY 1852
Built by	Cook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.)
Ordered
Laid down
Launched	19 Jul 1913
Commissioned	May 1941
End service
History	Completed on 17 September 1913. Taken over by the Admiralty in May 1941. Displacement: 296 tons. Renamed Portia in 1940/1941. Returned to her owner in January 1946 and rev erted to her original name. Scrapped in Belgium in 1954.

Commands listed for HMS Unitia (FY 1852)

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	Commander	From	To
1	J Pidgen, RNR	29 May 1940	30 Aug 1940
2	Jasper Alfred Stanberry Pidgen, RNR	30 Aug 1940	1 Jul 1941
3	T/Lt. Kennedy William Harrison, RNVR	1 Jul 1941	late 1941
4	T/S.Lt. Arthur John Carr, RNVR	late 1941	6 Aug 1942
5	T/S.Lt. Gordon Hardy, RNVR	6 Aug 1942	27 Nov 1942
6	T/Lt. Eric Higson Greenwood, RNVR	27 Nov 1942	mid 1945

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