Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | Rescue Tug |
Class | Assurance |
Pennant | W 110 |
Built by | Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | 27 Aug 1941 |
Launched | 20 Dec 1941 |
Commissioned | 30 Jul 1942 |
End service | |
History | HMRT Hengist (former Decision, renamed Hengist in 1941) was sold in 1965 and renamed Nisos Crete. |
Former name | Decision |
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Notable events involving Hengist include:
5 May 1944
HMRT Hengist picks up 53 survivors from the American destroyer escort USS Fechteler (DE 157) that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-967 about 120 nautical miles north-west of Oran, Algeria in position 36°07'N, 2°40'W.