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HMS Fowey (L15)

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774: 47: 33: 713:, before returning to the UK in April. She underwent further repairs at Milford Haven which lasted until August. She then resumed convoy defence in the Atlantic. In September, she joined the B23 Escort Group and was deployed in the North Western Approaches. She spent the rest of the war patrolling in Home waters with the group. After 687:
and four additional 20mm guns, which replaced her 0.5-inch machine guns. She trialled these new improvements in May, rejoining the group in June. She spent the rest of the year in the Atlantic, and was nominated for service in the Mediterranean in December. On 20 November she picked up 67 survivors
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deployed with this group for the rest of 1941, until February 1942. She spent between March and April under refit in Liverpool, and after post refit trials in May, rejoined the group in June. July to September was spent with the group, followed by another refit in Liverpool in October, when she was
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under refit at Devonport, during which time her pennant was changed to U15. She carried out post refit trials in June and rejoined Western Approaches Command at Liverpool in July. On 15 June she picked up 16 survivors from the Norwegian tanker SS
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in early 1946 and was under refit from May 1946. This transfer was subsequently cancelled and she was put up for disposal. She was sold to Wheelock Marsden & Co Ltd for use as a merchant vessel. She was renamed SS
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on 24 March 1930, and was launched on 4 November that year by a Mrs Treffery. She was commissioned on 11 September 1931 and was initially manned by the Devonport Port Division. She was then assigned to the
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was transferred to serve in the Mediterranean on 9 September after her repairs had been completed. By October she was engaged on contraband patrols, before being transferred to
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fitted with the Type 271 surface warning radar. She then returned to the group and her convoy protection duties. She was taken in hand for a major refit at
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remained the Stranraer guardship until December 1946, when she was sent to Portsmouth. She had been selected to be transferred to
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on convoy escort duties. Her first success came on 30 January, when she took part in the sinking of
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and North Western Approaches in December. By now she had been equipped with Type 286M Modified RAF
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On a Field Blue, a ship Gold with White sails bearing a cross Red over wavelets Silver and Green.
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spent August and September escorting convoys in the Western Approaches. She put to sea with the
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was detached on 19 March and returned to port. She deployed again on 5 April, this time with
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sailed to the Mediterranean in January 1944. She spent February and March under repair at
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and continued in commercial service until 1950. She was then sold for scrapping in
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to operate in the Atlantic. She was nominated for a refit in June and sailed for
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throughout February and into March. On 14 March she was deployed with her sister
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She spent January to May 1941 on these duties, before being transferred to the
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was ordered on 4 December 1929, under the 1929 Programme. She was laid down at
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and served there until August 1939. She then spent a period under repair at
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to the UK. She was detached from the convoy on 18 December and sailed for
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in January 1943, which lasted until April. She was fitted with the
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60 miles (97 km) west of the Scilly Isles. On 21 June she and
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Port Division. She was adopted by the civil community of
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escort force and was deployed for convoy defence in the
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through the South Western Approaches from Gibraltar to
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HMS Fowey

RN Ensign
Devonport Dockyard
Pennant number
QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk V guns
.5" MG A/A
Shoreham-class
sloop
Royal Navy
Second World War
Devonport Dockyard
Persian Gulf
Bombay
Portsmouth
Wincanton
Warship Week
Freetown
Atlantic convoy defence efforts
Convoy SL 11
Southampton
Western Approaches Command
Plymouth
U-55
HMS Whitshed
RAF
No. 228 Squadron
Isles of Scilly
Western Approaches
HMS Bideford

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