Allied Warships

HMS Akita (FY 610)

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 610 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched23 Mar 1939 
CommissionedAug 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Completed in June 1939.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Displacement: 314 tons.
Armament: 1 12pdr AA gun.

Returned to her owner in October 1945.
Renamed Boston Heron in 1956.
Wrecked off Scalpay on 3 December 1962.

 

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Noteable events involving Akita include:


3 Mar 1940
HMT Akita (Chief Skipper W.A. Watson, DSC, RNR) picks up 2 survivors from the British merchant Cato that was sunk, 2.5 nautical miles west of Nash Point in the Bristol Channel in position 51º24'N, 03º37'W, after hitting a mine laid the previous day by the German submarine U-29

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