Allied Warships

HMS Lord Irwin (FY 1617)

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 1617 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched1 Oct 1928 
Commissioned 1939 
End service 
History

Completed in December 1928.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August or September 1939.
Displacement: 346 tons.

Returned to her owner in January or February 1946.
Scrapped at Ghent, Belgium on 17 May 1954.

 

Commands listed for HMS Lord Irwin (FY 1617)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt. Lawrence Lyster Thornton, RNR4 Sep 193930 Mar 1940
2T/Skr. Harry Summers, RNR30 Mar 194021 Dec 1940
3T/Lt. Brian John Parmenter Kelly, DSC, RNVR21 Dec 1940mid 1941
4J R Kingdon, RNVRmid 1941mid/late42
5Skr. Cyril Sutcliffe, RNRmid/late421 Sep 1943
6T/Skr. Arthur Myers, RNR1 Sep 194320 Aug 1944
7T/Skr. Albert James Bean, RNR20 Aug 194413 Feb 1945
8C McD Newton, RNR13 Feb 1945mid 1945

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