Allied Warships

HMS HDML 1131 (ML 1131)

Harbour Defence Motor Launch of the HDML class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeHarbour Defence Motor Launch
ClassHDML 
PennantML 1131 
Built byThornycroft (Hampton-on-Thames, England, U.K.) 
Ordered30 May 1941 
Laid down 
Launched 
Commissioned12 May 1942 
End service 
History

Sold in 1946

 

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Notable events involving HDML 1131 include:


27 Sep 1942
The M/S trawlers HMS Fluellen (T/Lt. B.J. Hampson, RNR, Senior Officer), HMS Horatio (T/Lt. C.A. Lemkey, RNR), HMS Othello (T/Lt. S.C. Dickinson, RNVR) and HMS Stroma (Skr. J.S. Harper, RNR) departed Milford Haven for Gibraltar. They were escorting the 134th HDML Flotilla made up of HDML 1210 (Senior Officer), HDML 1130, HDML 1131, HDML 1134, HDML 1146, HDML 1162, HDML 1235 and HDML 1237. (1)

6 Oct 1942
The M/S trawlers HMS Fluellen (T/Lt. B.J. Hampson, RNR, Senior Officer), HMS Horatio (T/Lt. C.A. Lemkey, RNR), HMS Othello (T/Lt. S.C. Dickinson, RNVR) and HMS Stroma (Skr. J.S. Harper, RNR) and the 134th HDML Flotilla made up of HDML 1210 (Senior Officer), HDML 1130, HDML 1131, HDML 1134, HDML 1146, HDML 1162, HDML 1235 and HDML 1237 arrived at Gibraltar from the U.K. (2)

Sources

  1. ADM 199/423
  2. ADM 199/662

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


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