HMS Lord Middleton (FY219)
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| Class and type: | Requisitioned Trawler |
| Name: | HMS Lord Middleton |
| Builder: | Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd., Selby |
| Launched: | 24 March 1936 |
| Commissioned: | September 1939 (requisitioned) |
| Decommissioned: | July 1945 (returned) |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1964 |
| Displacement: | 464 tons |
| Armament: | 1 × 4-inch gun |
This ship was originally a fishing trawler launched on 24 March 1936. She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy upon the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 and designated HMS Lord Middleton with the pennant number (FY219).
She survived the war and was returned to her owner in July 1945. She was scrapped in 1964. Her sister-ship, HMS Lord Austin, was lost on June 24, 1944.
[edit] Service in the Second World War
In April 1942, Lord Middelton rescued crew from the torpedoed merchantman Empire Howard. In May of the same year, she also rescued some of the crew of the Soviet ship Tsiolkovskij after that vessel was eventually sunk by attacks from a German U-boat and two destroyers.
On 20 September 1942, Lord Middleton was part of Convoy PQ-18 which was attacked by U-703. During the battle, HMS Somali was hit and sustained major damage. Lord Middleton evacuated 80 of her 190-strong crew, leaving some of them to try and save the ship. When the ship eventually broke in two and sank five days later, Lord Middleton and Ashanti pulled 35 more of her crew from the sea.
On 17 February 1943, as part of the Arctic convoy JW-53 to the Soviet port of Murmansk, HMS Lord Middleton suffered flooding in her forward storeroom in the bad weather and was lagging behind the convoy. She was forced to retreat to Scapa Flow escorted by the corvette HMS Dianella.
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