Allied Warships

HMS Leicester City (FY 223)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 223 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched24 Nov 1934 
CommissionedSep 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Completed in December 1934.
Taken over by the Admiralty in September 1939.
Displacement: 422 tons.

Returned to her owner in March 1946.
Wrecked off Breibuster Head, Hoy Sound on 22 Marh 1953.

 

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Noteable events involving Leicester City include:


4 May 1940
HMT Leicester City (T/Lt. A.R. Cornish, RNR) picks up 40 survivors from the British tanker San Tiburcio that was sunk 4 nautical miles south-east of Tarbett Ness, Moray Firth in position 57º46'N, 03º45'W after hitting a mine laid on 10 February 1940 by the German submarine U-9.

7 May 1945
HMT Valse and HMT Leicester City together pick up 19 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Sneland I that was torpedoed and sunk near May Island in the Firth of Forth in position 56º10'N, 02º31'W by the German submarine U-2336.

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