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HMS Croome (L 62)

Escort destroyer of the Hunt (Type II) class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeEscort destroyer
ClassHunt (Type II) 
PennantL 62 
Built byA. Stephen & Sons Ltd. (Glasgow, Scotland) 
Ordered 
Laid down7 Jun, 1940 
Launched30 Jan, 1941 
Commissioned29 Jun, 1941 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales on 13 August 1957.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. John Douglas Hayes, RN
25 April 1941 – July 1942
DSO awarded on 28 October 1941

Lt.Cdr. Rupert Cyril Egan, RN
July 1942 – January 1943

Lt. H.M.D. Slater, RN
January 1943 – 30 March 1944
Promoted to A/Lt.Cdr. on ???

Lt. William David Shaw, RN
30 March 1944 – 4 April 1944

A/T/Lt.Cdr. John Stuart Lawrence, DSC, RNVR
4 April 1944 – 12 December 1944

A/Lt.Cdr. Basil Chrystie Ward. DSC and Bar, RN
12 December 1944 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Croome include:

9 Aug, 1941
The Italian submarine Maggiore Baracca (offsite link) was rammed and sunk in the North Atlantic, north-east of the Azores, in position 40º15'N, 20º55'W by the British escort destroyer HMS Croome (Lt.Cdr. J.D. Hayes, RN). (see map)

4 Aug, 1942
The German submarine U-372 was sunk in the Mediterranean south-west of Haifa, in position 32º28'N, 34º37'E, by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Sikh (Capt. St.J.A. Micklethwait, DSO and Bar, RN) and HMS Zulu (Cdr. R.T. White, DSO and Bar, RN) and the British escort destroyers HMS Croome (Lt.Cdr. R.C. Egan, RN) and HMS Tetcott (Lt. R.H. Rycroft, RN) and by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft (221 Sqdn.). (see map)


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