Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Armed boarding vessel |
Class | [No specific class] |
Pennant | |
Built by | Ramage & Ferguson Ltd. (Leith, Scotland) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | |
Launched | 22 Sep 1914 |
Commissioned | 11 Mar 1940 |
Lost | 5 Dec 1941 |
History | Passenger / cargo vessel completed on 12 December 1914. Taken in hand for fitting out as Armed boarding vessel at Singapore in January 1940. Fitting out completed on 11 March 1940. Displacement: 3033 GRT. Dimensions: 100.8 x 14.1 feet. Armament: 2 4" guns (2x1), 1 12pdr, 2 2pdr AA (2x1) Speed: 12 knots. HMS Chakdina (Lt.Cdr. Walter Raleigh Hickey, RNR) was torpedoed and sunk by Italian aircraft between Tobruk and Alexandria on 5 December 1941. |
Commands listed for HMS Chakdina
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | R Bignall, RNR | 10 Mar 1940 | Apr 1940 |
2 | Lt.Cdr. Walter Raleigh Hickey, RNR | Apr 1940 | 5 Dec 1941 |
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