Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Armed boarding vessel |
Class | [No specific class] |
Pennant | 4.68 |
Built by | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. (Dundee, Scotland) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | |
Launched | Apr 1917 |
Commissioned | 1939 |
End service | |
History | Passenger vessel completed in May 1917. Requisitioned by the Admiralty in September 1939. Displacement: 1928 GRT. Dimensions: 82.4 x 11.3 feet. Armament: 1 12 pdr AA Speed: 12.5 knots. Became an auxiliary Anti Aricraft vessel in 1941. |
Commands listed for HMS Goodwin (4.68)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Lt. Angus Alexander Mackenzie, RNR | 9 Sep 1939 | 3 Oct 1939 |
2 | Lt.Cdr. (retired) Charles Frederick Nock, RN | 3 Oct 1939 | mid 1940 |
3 | Lt. Robert Ernest Brett, RNR | mid 1940 | 8 Apr 1941 |
4 | Lt.Cdr. Joseph Stretch, RNR | 8 Apr 1941 | late 1942 |
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Notable events involving Goodwin include:
23 May 1941
HrMs O 9 (Lt. H.A.W. Goossens, RNN) departed Holyhead for Rothesay. She was escorted by the British patrol vessel HMS Goodwin (Lt.Cdr. J. Stretch, RNR). (1)
24 May 1941
HMS H 44 (Lt. W.N.R. Knox, DSC, RN) departed Rothesay for Holy HMS Goodwin (Lt.Cdr. J. Stretch, RNR). (2)
Sources
- File 2.12.03.6367 (Dutch Archives, The Hague, Netherlands)
- ADM 173/16781
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.