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Allied Warships

HMS Wear (K 230)

Frigate of the River class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassRiver 
PennantK 230 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down16 Oct, 1941 
Launched1 Jun, 1942 
Commissioned24 Oct, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Scrapped on 29 October 1957.

Commanding Officers:
T/Lt. G.D. Edwards, RNVR
29 September 1942 – 7 December 1943

A/Lt.Cdr. P.V. Callings, RNR
7 December 1943 – 14 January 1944

Lt.Cdr. Gerald MacClelland, DSC, RN
14 January 1944 – 27 March 1944

T/A/Lt.Cdr. E.G.L. Hone, RNVR
27 March 1944 – July 1945

T/A/Lt.Cdr. S. Rule, RNVR
July 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Wear include:

30 Mar, 1943
HMS Wear (T/Lt. G.D. Edwards, RNVR) picks up 97 men from the British merchant Nagara that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-404 about 425 miles northwest of Cape Finisterre in position 46º50'N, 16º40'W. The Nagara founders on 4 April 1943 in position 47º52'N, 14º03'W while in tow of the British rescue tug HMRT Dexterous.

HMS Wear also picks up 46 survivors from the British merchant Empire Bowman that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-404 about 425 miles northwest of Cape Finisterre in position 47º26'N, 15º53'W.

HMS Wear also picks up 103 survivors from the British merchant Umaria that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-662 about 425 miles northwest of Cape Finisterre in position 46º44'N, 16º38'W. Wear then scuttles the wreck of the Umaria with gunfire.


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