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Allied Warships

HMS Weston (L 72 / U 72)

Sloop of the Falmouth class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeSloop
ClassFalmouth 
PennantL 72 / U 72 
Built byDevonport dockyard (Plymouth, U.K.): Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd. (Scotstoun, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down7 Sep, 1931 
Launched23 Jul, 1932 
Commissioned23 Feb, 1933 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Sold 22 May 1947.

Commanding Officers:
HMS Weston was refitting at the start of the 2nd World War

Cdr. A.G. Davidson, RN (retired)
8 September 1939 – 13 January 1940

Lt.Cdr. Seymour Charles Tuke, RN
13 January 1940 – 6 September 1940

Cdr. John Gilbert Sutton, RN (retired)
6 September 1940 – 24 August 1942

Cdr. Leonard Francis Durnford-Slater, RN
24 August 1942 – 7 July 1943

Cdr. Ernest Gleave, RNR
7 July 1943 – 22 January 1945

A/Lt.Cdr. William Pennock Chipman, RCNVR
22 January 1945 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List

HMS Weston is not listed as active unit in the October 1945 Navy List 


Noteable events involving Weston include:

24 Feb, 1940
HMS Weston (Lt.Cdr. S.C. Tuke, RN) picks up 27 survivors from the British merchant Royal Archer that sank off the Firth of Forth in position 56º06'N, 02º55'W on a mine laid on 4 November 1939 by the German submarine U-21.

31 May, 1940
On 31 May 1940 U-13 was lost in the North Sea 11 nautical miles south-east of Lowestoft, in position 52º26'N, 02º02'E, by depth charges from the British sloop HMS Weston (Lt.Cdr. S.C. Tuke, RN). (see map)

9 Oct, 1940
HMS Weston (Cdr. J.G. Sutton, RN (retired)) picks up 31 survivors from the British merchant Confield that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-58 about 90 nautical miles west of Barra Head in position 56º48'N, 10º17'W.

20 Sep, 1941
The German submarine U-111 torpedoes and sinks the British merchant Cingalese Prince east-south-east of St.Paul Rocks in position 02º00'S, 25º30'W.

HMS Weston (Cdr. J.G. Sutton, RN (retired)) later picks up 1 survivor.

21 May, 1942
HMS Weston (Cdr. J.G. Sutton, RN (retired)) picks up 7 survivors from the British merchant New Brunswick that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-159 about 140 nautical miles east-south-east of Santa Maria, Azores in position 36º53'N, 22º55'W.

23 Feb, 1943
HMS Weston (Cdr L.F. Durnford-Slater, RN) picks up 50 survivors from the British tanker Athelprincess that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-522 south of the Azores in position 32º02'N, 24º38'W.


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