Allied Warships

HMS Estrella do Mar (FY 1916)

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 1916 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched8 Sep 1914 
Commissioned 1941 
End service 
History

Completed in November 1914.
Taken over by the Admiralty in 1941.
Displacement: 327 tons.
Armament: 1 12pdr AA gun.

Renamed Dusk in 1941.
Sold in 1946 being renamed Akbari.
Scrapped at Mombasa in January 1958.

 

Commands listed for HMS Estrella do Mar (FY 1916)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt. David Kenneth Hamilton Kinloch, RNR20 Nov 194114 Aug 1943
2T/Lt. Oliver Lawton Payne, RNVR14 Aug 19432 Oct 1943
3T/Lt. James Woodhams, RNVR2 Oct 194330 Jul 1944
4T/Lt. Anthony John Gibbons, RNVR30 Jul 1944May 1945
5T/Lt. Leonard Wilkinson, RNVRMay 1945late 1945

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