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HMS Milne (G 14)

Destroyer of the M class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassM 
PennantG 14 
Built byScotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down24 Jan, 1940 
Launched31 Dec, 1941 
Commissioned6 Aug, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistorySold to the Turkish Navy in 1958 being renamed Alm Arslan.

Commanding Officers:
Capt Ian Murray Robertson Campbell, RN
20 May 1942 – 12 April 1944
DSO awarded on 1 December 1942

Capt. Maxwell Richmond, OBE, DSO, RN
12 April 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Milne include:

29 Dec, 1942
HMS Milne (Capt I.M.R. Campbell, DSO, RN) picks up 42 survivors from the British merchant Baron Cochrane that was torpedoed and damaged in position 43º23'N, 27º14'W the previous day by the German submarine U-406.
The wreck of the Baron Cochrane was sunk on the 29th by the German submarine U-123.

HMS Milne also picks up 52 survivors from the British merchant Lynton Grange that was also torpedoed and damaged the previous day by the German submarine U-406 northwest of the Azores in position 43º23'N, 27º14'W.
The wreck of the Lynton Grange was sunk on the 29th by the German submarine U-628.

HMS Milne also picks up 49 survivors from the British merchant Zarian that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-406 northwest of the Azores in position 43º23'N, 27º14'W.

31 May, 1944
The German submarine U-289 was sunk in the Barents Sea south-west of Bear Island, Norway, in position 73º32'N, 00º28'E, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Milne (Capt. M. Richmond, OBE, DSO, RN). (see map)


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