Allied Warships

HMS Erne (U 03)

Sloop of the Black Swan class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeSloop
ClassBlack Swan 
PennantU 03 
Built byFurness Shipbuilding Ltd. (Haverton Hill-on-Tees, U.K.) : Richardson Westgarth 
Ordered 
Laid down21 Sep 1939 
Launched5 Aug 1940 
Commissioned26 Apr 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Became a RNVR Drill ship on 4 June 1952 being renamed Wessex.
Scrapped in 1965.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Henry Maxwell Darell-Brown, RN
27 February 1941 - ???

HMS Erne was in Dockyard Control during repairs

Lt.Cdr. Evelyn David John Abbot, RN
17 March 1942 – October / November 1943
DSC awarded on 6 January 1943

HMS Erne in Dockyard Control during refit ???

Lt.Cdr. Walter Raleigh Hickey, RD, RNR
December 1943 – 18 June 1945
Promoted to Cdr. on 31 December 1944

Lt.Cdr. James Arbouin Burnett, DSC, RN
18 June 1945 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List

 

Commands listed for HMS Erne (U 03)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Henry Maxwell Darell-Brown, RN27 Feb 1941

2Lt.Cdr. Evelyn David John Abbot, RN17 Mar 1942ca. Nov 43

3Lt.Cdr. Walter Raleigh Hickey, RNRDec 194318 Jun 1945
4Lt.Cdr. James Arbouin Burnett, RN18 Jun 194515 Jun 1946

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Noteable events involving Erne include:


30 Apr 1941
While still at the builders yard (4 days after commissioning) HMS Erne (Lt.Cdr. H.M. Darell-Brown, RN) is heavily damaged by a near miss during a German air attack. Repairs were only completed in June 1942.

31 Jul 1942
The German submarine U-213 was sunk in the North Atlantic east of the Azores, in position 36º45'N, 22º50'W by depth charges from the British sloops HMS Erne (Lt.Cdr. E.D.J. Abbot, RN), HMS Rochester (Cdr. C.B. Allen, RN) and HMS Sandwich (Lt.Cdr. H. Hill, RNR). (see map)

29 Aug 1942
HMS Erne (Lt.Cdr. E.D.J. Abbot, RN) scuttles the Dutch merchant Zuiderkerk with depth charges. The Zuiderkerk was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-566 west-north-west of Lisbon, Portugal in position 40º20'N, 16º02'W.

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