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HMS Globe VI (J 136)

MS Whaler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Whaler
Class 
PennantJ 136 
Built byA.S. Moss Værft og Dokk (Moss, Norway) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched8 Aug, 1935 
CommissionedApr, 1941 
Lost27 Mar, 1944 
Loss position05.25N, 77.32E (See a map)
 
HistoryCompleted on 5 September 1935.
Norwegian whaler of Hvalfangerselskapet Globus A/S, Larvik, Norway taken over by the Admiralty in April 1941.
Displacement: 249 tons.

To the Royal Norwegian Navy on 30 July 1941 later being renamed Maaløy.
Reverted back to Royal Navy on 12 June 1942.

HMS Maaløy (T/Lt. Frederick James Perkins, RNVR) was torpedoed and sunk off Ceylon in position 05º25'N 77º32'E by the German submarine U-510, 17 dead. 

Hit by U-boat
Sunk on 27 Mar, 1944 by U-510 (Eick).

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