Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Ocean boarding vessel |
Class | [No specific class] |
Pennant | F 109 |
Built by | Cammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | |
Launched | 13 Nov 1928 |
Commissioned | May 1941 |
Lost | 15 Jul 1941 |
Loss position | 37° 12'N, 20° 32'W |
History | Passenger / cargo (ref.) vessel completed in March 1929. Requisitioned by the Admiralty in October 1940 while in Canada. Converted to Ocean boarding vessel at Bermuda completing in April 1941. Displacement: 8194 GRT. Dimensions: 128.1 x 18.1. Armament: 2 6" guns (2x1), 1 12pdr AA gun. Speed: 14 knots. HMS Lady Somers (Cdr. George Learmouth Dunbar, RD, RNR) was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic by the Italian submarine Morosini on 15 July 1941. |
Commands listed for HMS Lady Somers (F 109)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Cdr. George Learmouth Dunbar, RD, RNR | Nov 1940 | 15 Jul 1941 |
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