Allied Warships

HMS Calvi

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
Pennant 
Built byCook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched30 Aug 1930 
CommissionedSep 1939 
Lost29 May 1940 
History

Completed on 30 September 1930.
Taken over by the Admiralty in September 1939.
Displacement: 363 tons.

HMT Calvi (T/Skipper Bertie David Spindler, RNR) was sunk by German aircraft off Dunkirk, France on 29 May 1940.2 died of wounds though the Commanding officer survived the sinking.

 

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1T/Skr. Bertie David Spindler, RNR7 Mar 194029 May 1940

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