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Allied Warships

HMS Kilbernie (Z 01)

Patrol vessel of the Kil class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypePatrol vessel
ClassKil 
PennantZ 01 
Built byPullman Standard Car Co. (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down14 Oct, 1942 
Launched2 May, 1943 
Commissioned16 Jul, 1943 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryLaid up in reserve at Sheerness, England in June 1945.
Returned to the U.S.N on 10 December 1946.
Sold in 1947 to Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskab, Stavanger, Norway and rebuilt as a coastal passanger ship and renamed Haugesund.
Sold in 1973 to Libera Navigazione Lauro S.A.S., Naples, Italy and renamed Sicilia Ponte.
Sold in 1982 to Fila Societa per Azioni, Italy and renamed Tucalif.
Scrapped in Italy in August 1997. 
Former nameUSS PCE 827

Noteable events involving Kilbernie include:

10 Jan, 1945
HMS Ballinderry (Lt.Cdr. E.F. Aikman, RNR) and HMS Kilbernie (Lt. C.T. Letts, RNVR) together pick up 51 survivors from the British merchant Blackheath that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-870 west of Gibraltar in position 35º49'N, 06º03'W.


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