HMS Cambridgeshire (FY142)

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HMS Cambridgeshire (FY142) was a British Second World War anti-submarine trawler of the British Royal Navy, named after Cambridgeshire, an English county.

The 443 ton trawler was laid down on 2 July 1935 at Smiths Dock Company of South Bank-on-Tees and completed by the end of the year. It was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the war and converted to an anti-submarine vessel, armed with a single 4 inch gun, machine guns and depth charges.[1][2]

The vessel took part in the rescue of passengers and crew from the bombing of RMS Lancastria during Operation Ariel on 17 June 1940.[2] Cambridgeshire was sold in 1945, returning to commercial fishing, and renamed Kingston Sapphire in 1947. The trawler was scrapped at Bruges, Belgium in October 1954.

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  1. ^ HMS Cambridgeshire (FY 142). Uboat.net. Retrieved on 2007-01-21.
  2. ^ a b HMS Cambridgeshire. The Wartime Memories Project. Retrieved on 2007-01-21.
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