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TRAWLERS LOST
DURING WWII |
The Royal Naval Patrol Service (RNPS), developed from the pre-war Royal Naval
Reserve Trawler Section, manned at its World War 2 peak, 1637 craft of various
kinds including converted trawlers, corvettes, fuel carriers, motor launches and
naval seaplane tenders. Of this total, from September 1939 through to May 1945,
approximately 260 trawlers were lost in action, from the northern seas off
Norway to the eastern seaboard of North America, the Far East, Africa and the
Mediterranean. This material loss however pales into insignificance when
compared to the 15,000 or so, RNPS personnel who were killed during WWII and the
2385 RNPS seaman who "have no known grave but the sea".
Included on the following pages are details of those Admiralty trawlers lost
during World War 2.
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Trawlers Lost - World War 2 |
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Date |
Name |
Action |
Location |
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18 September
1939 |
Lord Minto |
Sunk by U-boat
gunfire |
Off
Flannan
Islands |
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18 September
1939 |
Arlita |
Sunk by U-boat
gunfire |
Off
Flannan
Islands |
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28 October 1939 |
St. Nidan |
Submarine
gunfire from U59 |
Off Shetlands |
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30 October 1939 |
Northern Rover |
Sunk by torpedo
from U59 |
Overdue at
Kirkwall, Orkney |
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14 November 1939 |
Creswell |
Sunk by U-boat
gunfire |
Hebrides |
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20 November 1939 |
Sea Sweeper |
Sunk by U-boat |
Off
Tory
Island |
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20 November 1939 |
Mastiff |
Mined |
Thames Estuary |
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22 November 1939 |
Aragonite |
Mined |
Deal |
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6 December 1939 |
Washington |
Mined |
North sea on passage to
Yarmouth |
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13 December 1939 |
William Hallett |
Mined |
5 miles north
east of
Tyne
north pier |
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14 December 1939 |
James Ludford |
Mined |
Tyne area,
North Sea |
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16 December 1939 |
Evalina |
Mined |
Tyne area,
North Sea |
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16 December 1939 |
Sedgefly |
Mined |
¾miles east of
Souter Point,
Tynemouth |
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22 December 1939 |
Dromio |
Collision |
1¼ miles north
east of Whitby |
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23 December 1939 |
Barbara
Robertson |
German U-boat
(U30) gunfire |
North of
Hebrides, West Scotland |
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25 December 1939 |
Loch
Doon |
Mined |
5½ miles east of
Blyth north pier,
North Sea |
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Date |
Name |
Action |
Location |
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5 January 1940 |
Kingston
Cornelian |
Collision with
French S.S. Chella |
East of
Gibraltar Straits |
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12 January 1940 |
Valdora |
Believed sunk by
German aircraft |
Cromer area |
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9 February 1940 |
Fort Royal |
Aircraft |
Off
Aberdeen |
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9 February 1940 |
Robert Bowen |
Aircraft |
Off
Aberdeen |
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15 February 1940 |
Peridot |
Mined |
Off
Dover |
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20 February 1940 |
Fifeshire |
Aircraft |
East of Copinsay,
Orkneys |
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23 February 1940 |
Benvolio |
Mined |
8 miles north
east from Spurnhead, Humber |
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19 March 1940 |
Lowdock
|
Rammed by
trawler Lady Philomena |
5 miles east of
Todhead, Stonehaven |
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22 March 1940 |
Loch Assater |
British mine |
East coast of
Scotland |
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20 April 1940 |
Rutlandshire |
Attacked by
aircraft and grounded |
Namsos,
Norway |
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25 April 1940 |
Bradman
|
Sunk by aircraft |
West coast of
Norway |
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25 April 1940 |
Hammond |
Sunk by aircraft |
Aandalsnes,
Norway |
|
H.M.T.
Hammond
Sinking Aandalsnes |
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25 April 1940 |
Larwood |
Sunk by aircraft |
West coast of
Norway |
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28 April 1940 |
Cape Siretoko |
Sunk by aircraft |
West coast of
Norway |
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29 April 1940 |
Cape Chelyuskin |
Sunk by aircraft |
Off
Norway |
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30 April 1940 |
Jardine |
Sunk by own
forces after damage by aircraft |
West coast of
Norway |
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30 April 1940 |
Warwickshire |
Sunk by aircraft |
Trondheim
area, Norway |
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1 May 1940 |
Aston Villa |
Sunk by aircraft |
Entrance to
Namsfjord,
Norway |
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1 May 1940 |
Gaul |
Sunk by aircraft |
Entrance to
Namsfjord,
Norway |
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1 May 1940 |
St. Goran |
Sunk by aircraft |
Entrance to
Namsfjord,
Norway |
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6 May 1940 |
Loch Naver |
Sunk in
collision |
4½ miles east of
Hartlepool |
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20 May 1940 |
Rifsnes |
Sunk by aircraft |
Off
Ostend |
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21 May 1940 |
Cape Passaro |
Sunk by aircraft |
Narvik area,
Norway |
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22 May 1940 |
Melbourne |
Sunk by
aircraft |
Narvik area,
Norway |
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25 May 1940 |
Charles Boyes |
Sunk by mine |
East coast of
England |
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28 May 1940 |
Thomas Bartlett |
Sunk by mine |
Calais |
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28 May 1940 |
Thuringia |
Sunk by mine |
North Sea |
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29 May 1940 |
Calvi |
Sunk by aircraft |
Off
Dunkirk |
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29 May 1940 |
Polly Johnson |
Sunk by aircraft |
Off
Dunkirk |
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30 May 1940 |
Cambrian |
Mined |
Off Spithead |
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31 May 1940 |
St. Achilleus |
Sunk by mine |
Dunkirk
area |
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1 June 1940 |
Argyllshire |
Sunk by E-boat |
Dunkirk |
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1 June 1940 |
Stella Dorado |
Sunk by E-boat |
Dunkirk |
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2 June 1940 |
Blackburn Rovers |
Sunk by U-boat
or mine |
North Sea |
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2 June 1940 |
Westella |
Torpedoed or
mined |
Off
Dunkirk |
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8 June 1940 |
Juniper |
Sunk by Admiral
Hipper |
Off
Norway |
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12 June 1940 |
Sisapon |
Mined |
Off Harwich |
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14 June 1940 |
Myrtle |
Sunk by mine |
Thames Estuary |
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17 June 1940 |
Murmansk |
Grounded |
Brest |
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8 July 1940 |
Cayton Wyke |
Sunk by surface
craft torpedo |
Goodwin Sands,
Deal |
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19 July 1940 |
Crestflower |
Foundered after
damage by aircraft |
Off
St.
Catherines
Point, Isle of Wight |
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22 July 1940 |
Campina |
Mined |
Off Holyhead |
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24 July 1940 |
Fleming |
Sunk by aircraft |
Thames Estuary |
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24 July 1940 |
Kingston
Galena |
Sunk by aircraft |
Off
Dover |
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24 July 1940 |
Rodino |
Sunk by aircraft |
Off
Dover |
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28 July 1940 |
Staunton |
Presumed blown
up by magnetic mine |
Thames Estuary |
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2 August 1940 |
Cape Finisterre |
Sunk by aircraft |
Off Harwich |
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4 August 1940 |
Drummer |
Mined |
Off
Brightlingsea, Essex |
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4 August 1940 |
Marsona |
Mined |
Off Cromarty |
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4 August 1940 |
Oswaldian |
Mined |
Bristol Channel |
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5 August 1940 |
River Clyde |
Sunk by mine |
Off Aldeburgh,
Suffolk |
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12 August 1940 |
Pyrope |
Sunk by aircraft |
Thames Estuary |
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12 August 1940 |
Tamarisk |
Sunk by aircraft |
Thames Estuary |
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