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Re: Convoy TS 37 & HMS Birdlip
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john
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Date: July 16, 2004 07:03PM
Author : john
Date : 16/07/04
Ordered 28/11/40 - Launched 9/07/41 - Built at Beverley by CWG - Completed as A/S 1942. - Commissioned at Birkenhead in May. - was one of first trawlers 2b fitted with radar - employed in convoy duties & was transfered to Med in the Torch Landings - Nov 43. - Transfered to the W African escort force based at Freetown - then 2 the 2nd A/S group also at Freetown - Lost 1944 while escorting the French St Bastile off Lagos on 13th June with trawlers Inkpen & Turcoman - torp by U 547 - 15 survivors who managed 2 reach shore in 2 life rafts
Date : 16/07/04
Ordered 28/11/40 - Launched 9/07/41 - Built at Beverley by CWG - Completed as A/S 1942. - Commissioned at Birkenhead in May. - was one of first trawlers 2b fitted with radar - employed in convoy duties & was transfered to Med in the Torch Landings - Nov 43. - Transfered to the W African escort force based at Freetown - then 2 the 2nd A/S group also at Freetown - Lost 1944 while escorting the French St Bastile off Lagos on 13th June with trawlers Inkpen & Turcoman - torp by U 547 - 15 survivors who managed 2 reach shore in 2 life rafts
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