Allied Warships

HMS Runswick Bay (FY 750)

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 750 
Built byCook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched25 May 1929 
CommissionedAug 1939 
End service 
History

Completed on 27 June 1929.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Displacement: 349 tons.

Returned to her owner in July 1946.
Renamed Hassett in 1947.
Wrecked 10 nautical miles north of Wick on 18 September 1953 (5 dead).

 

Commands listed for HMS Runswick Bay (FY 750)

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CommanderFromTo
1Skr. Jonathan Snape, RNR4 Mar 194013 Dec 1940
2T/Lt. Stephen Sparrow, RNVR13 Dec 194010 Oct 1942
3T/Lt. James Malcolm Anderson, RNVR10 Oct 1942May 1944
4T/Lt. Stuart Gordon Tubbs, RNVRMay 1944mid 1945

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