| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | ASW Trawler |
| Class | |
| Pennant | FY 261 |
| Built by | Smith's Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | |
| Launched | 8 Jun, 1937 |
| Commissioned | Sep, 1939 |
| Lost | 3 May, 1940 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Completed on 4 September 1937. Taken over by the Admiralty in September 1939. Displacement: 546 tons. Lenght: 174 feet. Armament: 1 4" gun. HMT Aston Villa (Lt.Cdr. Sir Geoffrey Cecil Congreve, RN (retired)) was heavily damaged on 30 April 1940 by German dive bombers in Kroken Bay near Namsos, Norway. Scuttled on 3 May 1940. |
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