HMS Seagull (J85)

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HMS Seagull was a Halcyon class minesweeper, and the first Royal Navy ship to be built entirely without rivets. She was completed on 30th March 1938.

During the Second World War she helped escort 21 Arctic convoys, and participated in Operation Neptune. She was also responsible for accidentally sinking the Polish submarine ORP Jastrząb, along with HNoMS St Albans, after the convoy changed its course and entered Jastrząb's patrol sector. Allied ships also ignored identification marks, while on surface (Seagull's commander was later found guilty by the Admiralty)^[1].

Seagull was scrapped in 1956.

[edit] References

http://www.halcyon-class.co.uk/seagull/hms_seagull.htm

1. ^ Jerzy Pertek, Wielkie dni małej floty, Poznań, 1976 (Polish language, no ISBN)

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