Allied Warships

HMS Vascama (FY 185)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 185 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched7 Mar 1935 
CommissionedSep 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Completed in April 1935.
Taken over by the Admiralty in September 1939.
Displacement: 447 tons.
Armament: 1 4" gun.

Lent to the Portugese Navy in October 1943 being renamed P-3.
Returned in August 1944.
Sold in July 1945.
Scrapped at Ghent, Belgium in 1963.

 

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Noteable events involving Vascama include:


25 Aug 1941
The German submarine U-452 was sunk in the North Sea south-east of Iceland, in position 61º30'N, 15º30'W, by depth charges from the British A/S trawler HMS Vascama and depth charges from a British Catalina aircraft (Sqdn. 209/J). (see map)

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