Allied Warships

HMS Rion (FY 024)

Armed Yacht

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeArmed Yacht
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 024 
Built byCamper & Nicholsons Ltd. (Gosport, England, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched 
Commissioned 
End service 
History

Completed in July 1928
Requisitioned by the Admiralty in September 1939.
Served in A/S role.

Renamed Noir in 1944.
Returned in June 1945.

 

Commands listed for HMS Rion (FY 024)

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CommanderFromTo
H F Besant, RN13 Jul 1940
1J K B Birch, RN13 Jul 194014 Aug 1940 (+)
2T/Lt. Gilbert Kenneth Hill, RNVR14 Aug 194011 Sep 1940
3Lt.Cdr. (retired) Giles Robert Pretor-Pinney, RN11 Sep 194018 Mar 1941
4Lt.Cdr. Lord Teynham, RN18 Mar 194111 Jun 1941
5C K Adam, RN11 Jun 194123 Jun 1942
6Lt. Edward Ernest Clifton, RNR23 Jun 1942mid 1943

7T/Lt. Leonard George Prowse, RINVR22 Nov 1943late 1944
8D E Doran, RNVRlate 1944mid 1945

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