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Re: HM Trawler Rinovia
Posted by: David H ()
Date: March 17, 2004 02:19PM

Alex

I can add only a little -
429 ton Grimsby trawler, built in 1931 and requisitioned by the Royal Navy in August 1939; fitted as a minesweeper.

She detonated a mine when 2.9 miles south-south-east of St. Anthony Point, Falmouth and sank.

The casualty list shows 14 killed (including a Stoker J. Johnston - I presume your ancestor?).

She was employed in sweeping mines in the western Channel; her commanding officer, Chief Skipper Thomas Frazer, was awarded a DSC and Engineer Thomas Johnston a DSM in April 1940 for "unfailing courage and endurance in the hard and perilous task of sweeping the seas clear of mines". On 19 July 1940 she was the target of an air attack, but survived, shooting down one of her attackers - Seaman Burgess was awarded a DSM for his coolness during this action.

David

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HM Trawler Rinovia Alex Johnston 03/17/2004 10:52AM
Re: HM Trawler Rinovia David H 03/17/2004 02:19PM
Re: HM Trawler Rinovia Nick Clark 07/17/2004 10:18PM
Re: HM Trawler Rinovia Nick Clark 07/17/2004 10:27PM
Re: HM Trawler Rinovia john 07/19/2004 09:01PM


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