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HMS Urchin (R 99)

Destroyer of the U class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassU 
PennantR 99 
Built byVickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) 
Ordered12 Jun, 1941 
Laid down28 Mar, 1942 
Launched8 Mar, 1943 
Commissioned24 Sep, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryReconstructed as Type 15 frigate during 1952-1954.

Scrapped at Troon in August 1967.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. John Travis Beaufoy Birch, DSC, RN
9 August 1943 – April 1944

Lt.Cdr. Denis Roy Newton Murdoch, RN
April 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

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