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HMS Fleetwood (L 47 / U 47)

Sloop of the Grimsby class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeSloop
ClassGrimsby 
PennantL 47 / U 47 
Built byDevonport Dockyard (Plymouth, U.K.): Thornycroft (Southampton, U.K.) 
Ordered1 Mar, 1935 
Laid down14 Aug, 1935 
Launched24 Mar, 1936 
Commissioned19 Nov, 1936 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Served as a radar and radio trials ship for the Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment after the war.
Scrapped 10 October 1959 by C.W Dorkin, Gateshead.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. Andrew Nichol Grey, RN
8 February 1939 – 4 August 1940
DSO awarded on 19 July 1940

Cdr. Ronald William Moir, RN
4 August 1940 – ca. mid 1941

Cdr. David Thomas Morgan Williams, RD, RNR
ca. mid 1941 – 20 July 1942

Cdr. William Brown Piggott, RD, RNR
20 July 1942 – July 1944
OBE ???
DSC awarded on 14 September 1943

A/Lt.Cdr. William Whitfield, DSC, RNR
July 1944 – still in command in July 1945 according to the Navy List

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


Noteable events involving Fleetwood include:

11 May, 1943
The German submarine U-528 was sunk in the North Atlantic south-west of Ireland, in position 46º55'N, 14º44'W, by depth charges from a British Handley Page Halifax aircraft (Sqdn. 58/D) and by depth charges from the British sloop HMS Fleetwood (Cdr. W.B. Piggot, OBE, RNR). (see map)

2 Nov, 1943
The German submarine U-340 was sunk at 0430hrs on 2 November 1943 near Tangier, in position 35º33'N, 06º37'W, by depth charges from the British sloop HMS Fleetwood (Cdr. W.B. Piggott, DSC, RD, RNR) and the British destroyers HMS Active (Lt.Cdr. P.G. Merriman, DSC, RN) and HMS Witherington (Lt.Cdr. R.B.S. Tennant, RN) and by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft (Sqdn. 179/R). (see map)


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