Allied Warships

HMS Glen Kidston (4.77)

MS Trawler

Navy	The Royal Navy
Type	MS Trawler
Class	[No specific class]
Pennant	4.77
Built by	Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.)
Ordered
Laid down
Launched	18 Mar 1930
Commissioned	Aug 1939
End service
History	Completed in May 1930. Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939. Displacement: 360 tons. Armament: 1 12pdr AA gun. Became an Auxiliary Patrol Trawler in June 1940. Reverted back to MS Trawler in 1941. Returned to her owner in July 1945. Scrapped at Bremerhaven, Germany in 1959.

Commands listed for HMS Glen Kidston (4.77)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Ernest Hilldrith, RNR	1 Sep 1940	24 Jun 1941
2	Skr. W J Taylor, RNR	24 Jun 1941	1 Aug 1941
3	T/Lt. Clement John Spurgeon, RNR	1 Aug 1941	26 Jan 1945
4	T/Lt. Thomas Sellers Otley, RNVR	26 Jan 1945	mid 1945

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