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Allied Warships

HMS Kurd (FY 639)

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 639 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched9 Oct, 1930 
Commissioned, 1939 
Lost10 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted in November 1930.
Taken over by the Admiralty in 1939.
Displacement: 352 tons.
Armament: 1 12pdr AA gun.

HMT Kurd (Lt.Cdr. Roy Barrett, RNR) was mined and sunk off Cornwall on 10 July 1945. 16 out of a crew of 27 went down with the ship.

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