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Allied Warships

HMS St. Kenan (FY 264)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 264 
Built byCook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched1 Oct, 1936 
CommissionedSep, 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted on 16 November 1936.
Taken over by the Admiralty in September 1939.
Displacement: 565 tons.

Returned to her owner in February 1946.
Scrapped at Antwerp, Belgium on 23 August 1966. 


Noteable events involving St. Kenan include:

13 Sep, 1942
HMT St. Kenan picks up survivors from the American merchant Oliver Ellsworth that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-408 about 100 nautical miles south-west of Spitsbergen in position 75º52'N, 07º55'E.


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