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Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	ASW Trawler
Class
Pennant	FY 219
Built by	Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.)
Ordered
Laid down
Launched	24 Mar, 1936
Commissioned	Sep, 1939
End service
Loss position

History	Completed in May 1936. Taken over by the Admiralty in September 1939. Displacement: 464 tons. Armament: 1 4" gun. Returned to her owner in July 1945. Scrapped at Barrow in 1964.

Noteable events involving Lord Middleton include:
16 Apr, 1942
HMT Lord Middleton (Lt. R.H. Jameson, RNR) picks up 9 survivors from the British merchant Empire Howard that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-403 north-west of North Cape in position 73º48'N, 21º50'E.
1 May, 1942
The Soviet merchant Tsiolkovskij that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-589 in the Arctic Sea in position 71º46'N, 34º30'E. The damaged Soviet ship was later sunk by the German destroyers Z-24 and Z-25. HMT Lord Middleton (Lt. R.H. Jameson, RNR) later picked up 14 survivors.

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