Allied Warships

HMS Blackfly (FY 117)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 117 
Built byCook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched26 Jul 1937 
CommissionedAug 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Completed on 29 September 1937 for Crampin Steam Fishing Co. Ltd., Grimsby as Barnett, GY454.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Displacement: 482 tons.

Resold in July 1946 to Crampin Steam Fishing Co. Limited, Grimsbby. Once again amed Barnett, GY200.
Scrapped at Ghent, Belgium by Van Heyghen Freres, Belgium on 30 September 1960.

 

Commands listed for HMS Blackfly (FY 117)

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1Lt. Stuart Faithful Fell, RANVR30 Oct 1944

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Noteable events involving Blackfly include:


20 Oct 1940
HMS Blackfly (Lt. A.P. Hughes, RNR) picks up 37 survivors from the British tanker Shirak that is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-48 about 90 nautical miles south-west of Rockall in position 57º00'N, 16º53'W.

15 May 1944
The German submarine U-731 was sunk in the mid-Atlantic near Tangier, in position 35º54'N, 05º45'W, by depth charges from the British patrol vessel HMS Kilmarnock (T/A/Lt.Cdr. K.B. Brown, RNVR), the British anti-submarine trawler HMS Blackfly (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A.P. Hughes, DSC, RNR) and 2 US Catalina aircraft (VP-63/P-12/P-1). (see map)

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