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HMS Blencathra (L 24)

Escort destroyer of the Hunt (Type II) class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeEscort destroyer
ClassHunt (Type II) 
PennantL 24 
Built byCammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down18 Nov, 1939 
Launched6 Aug, 1940 
Commissioned14 Dec, 1940 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Scrapped at Barrow on 2 January 1957.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. Hugh Waters Shelley Browning, RN
6 November 1940 – 26 April 1941

Cdr. John Henry Ruck-Keene, RN
26 April 1941 – 20 July 1942

Lt.Cdr. Edgar George Warren, RN
20 July 1942 – 24 April 1944

A/Lt.Cdr. Peter Gerald Charles Dickens, MBE, DSO, DSC, RN
24 April 1944 – June 1945

A/Lt.Cdr. M.D. Cornwall, RN
June 1945 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Blencathra include:

10 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-450 was sunk in the western Mediterranean south of Ostia, in position 41º11'N, 12º27'E, by depth charges from the British escort destroyers HMS Blankney, HMS Blencathra, HMS Brecon, HMS Exmoor and the US destroyer USS Madison. (see map)

30 Mar, 1944
The German submarine U-223 was sunk in the Mediterranean north of Palermo, in position 38º48'N, 14º10'E, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Laforey (Capt. H.T. Armstrong, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN) and HMS Tumult (Lt.Cdr. N. Lanyon, RN) and the British escort destroyers HMS Hambledon (Lt. L.G. Toone, RN) and HMS Blencathra (Lt.Cdr. E.G. Warren, RN). (see map)


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