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Allied Warships

HMS Wolves (FY 158)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 158 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched8 Nov, 1934 
CommissionedAug, 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted in December 1934.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Displacement: 442 tons.

Renamed Pataudi in 1947.
Scrapped at Sunderland in October 1960. 


Noteable events involving Wolves include:

26 Sep, 1940
HMS Wolves (Skipper B. Pile, RNR) picks up 17 survivors from the British tanker Stratford that was torpedoed and sunk 85 miles west-southwest of Bloody Foreland in position 54º50'N, 10º40'W by the German submarine U-137.


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