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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
 
HistoryCompleted 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. 


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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