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HMS Glenarm (K 258)

Frigate of the River class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassRiver 
PennantK 258 
Built byHenry Robb Ltd. (Leith, U.K.) : Smiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down15 Jul, 1942 
Launched8 Mar, 1943 
Commissioned30 Jul, 1943 
End service25 Sep, 1944 
Loss position
 
History

Renamed HMS Strule on 1 February 1944.

Transferred to the F.N.F.L. (Free French) on 25 September 1944 and renamed Croix de Lorraine.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. William Robert Boyce Noall, DSO, RNR
21 June 1943 – 16 March 1944
RD awarded on 26 November 1943

A/Cdr. L.B.A. Majendie, RN (retired)
16 March 1944 – 7 May 1944

A/Lt.Cdr. R. Johnston, RNR
8 May 1944 – 25 September 1944 

Career notesTo the Free French as Croix de Lorraine

Noteable events involving Glenarm include:

17 Jan, 1944
The German submarine U-377 was sunk in the North Atlantic south-west of Ireland, in position 49º39'N, 20º10'W, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Wanderer (Lt.Cdr. R.F. Whinney, RN) and the British frigate HMS Glenarm (Lt.Cdr. W.R.B. Noall, DSO, RNR). (see map)


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