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Allied Warships

HMS Poole (J 147)

Minesweeper of the Bangor class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMinesweeper
ClassBangor 
PennantJ 147 
Built byA. Stephen & Sons Ltd. (Glasgow, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down25 Jul, 1940 
Launched25 Jun, 1941 
Commissioned8 Nov, 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Sold 1 January 1948.

Commanding Officers:
Lt. Wilfred Louis Gerard Dutton, RNR
16 August 1941 – early 1944

Lt. David Arthur Pochon, RN
early 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Poole include:

12 Jul, 1943
The Italian submarine Bronzo was captured off Syracuse, Sicily by the British minesweepers HMS Seaham, HMS Boston, HMS Poole and HMS Cromarty.

Bronzo was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS P 714. On 29 Janaury 1944 she was transferred to the Free French as Narval.


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