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Allied Warships

HMS Lady Madeleine (FY 283)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 283 
Built byCook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched14 Sep, 1939 
CommissionedFeb, 1940 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted on 30 November 1939.
Taken over by the Admiralty in February 1940.
Displacement: 581 tons.

Returned to her owner in February 1946.
Renamed Kingston Diamond in 1946.
Scrapped at Glasson Dock, UK on 8 April 1965. 


Noteable events involving Lady Madeleine include:

29 Jan, 1941
HMT Lady Madeleine (t/Lt. P.H. Potter, RNR) picks up 20 survivors from the British merchant King Robert that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-94 south of Rockall in position 56º00'N, 15º23'W.

3 Feb, 1943
HMT Lady Madelaine picks up survivors from the American merchant Greylock that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-255 in the Norwegian Sea in position 70º52'N, 00º21'W. The Greylock was later sunk by gunfire by one of the escorts.


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