| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | ASW Trawler |
| Class | |
| Pennant | |
| Built by | Smiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | |
| Launched | 17 Jan, 1938 |
| Commissioned | Sep, 1939 |
| Lost | 20 Feb, 1940 |
| Loss position | 59.00N, 00.25E (See a map) |
| History | Built in June 1938. Taken over by the Admiralty in September 1939. Displacement: 540 tons. HMT Fifeshire (Sub.Lt. John Valentine Searles-Wood, RNPS) was sunk by German aircraft east off Copinsay Island, Scotland in position 59º00'N, 00º25'E. |
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