Allied Warships

HMS Kos VII

MS Whaler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Whaler
Class[No specific class] 
Pennant 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched23 May 1929 
CommissionedNov 1940 
End service 
History

Completed in July 1929.
Norwegian whaler of Hvalfangerselskap Kosmos A/S (Anders Jahre), Sandefjord, Norway taken over by the Admiralty in November 1940
Displacement: 248 tons.

Renamed HMS Daybreak in September 1941.
Returned to owner in January 1946.

 

Commands listed for HMS Kos VII

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1T/Lt. Matthew Mitchell, RNVR1 Mar 1943

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