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Allied Warships

HMS Haarlem (FY 306)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 306 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched20 Nov, 1937 
CommissionedAug, 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted in March 1938.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Displacement: 431 tons.

Returned to her owner in November 1945.
Scrapped at Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Netherlands late 1960. 


Noteable events involving Haarlem include:

19 Oct, 1941
The British destroyer HMS Duncan (Lt.Cdr. A.N. Rowell, RN) and the British ASW trawlers HMT Lady Hogarth (Lt. S.G. Barnes, RNR) and HMT Haarlem (Lt. L.B. Merrick, RNVR) together pick up 17 survivors from the British tanker Inverlee that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-204 30 nauical miles 240° from Cape Spartel, Marocco.


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