Ship |
Date launched/ completed |
Date requisitioned/ commissioned |
History |
HMS Ariguani |
1926 |
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converted to "Catapult Armed Ship". Used for convoy escort |
HMS Empire Audacity |
29 Mar 1939 |
11 Nov 1940 |
Former German ship Hannover captured 7/8 March 1940; converted to escort aircraft carrier 1941; sunk by U-751, 21 December 1941 |
HMS Camito |
June 1915 |
26 Sep 1940 |
Torpedoed and sunk 6 May 1941[1] |
HMS Corinthian |
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Rescued survivors of SS Duchess of Atholl Oct 1942[2] |
HMS Crispin |
1935 |
Aug 1940 |
Sunk 4 Feb 1941 after torpedo attack previous day[3] |
HMS Hilary |
17 Apr 1931 |
21 Jan 1941 |
Former SS Hilary; restored as a merchantman 15 April 1942; recommissioned as an infantry landing and headquarters ship 1943; returned to civilian service after the war in 1945; scrapped 1959. |
SS Inanda |
1925 |
11 August 1940 |
Bombed and sunk on 7 September 1940. Salvaged and converted to cargo ship Empire Explorer, never saw service as an ocean boarding vessel. Torpedoed and sunk in July 1942. |
SS Inkosi |
1937 |
11 August 1940 |
Bombed and sunk on 7 September 1940. Salvaged and converted to cargo ship Empire Chivalry, never saw service as an ocean boarding vessel. Sold postwar and renamed Planter. Scrapped 1958. |
HMS Lady Somers[4] |
1929 |
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Requisitioned by Admiralty in 1940. Sunk by Italian submarine Morosini in N Atlantic, 15 July 1941. |
HMS Largs |
1938 |
1941 |
French ship MV Charles Plumier in 1938; seized by Royal Navy; returned to France 1945; sold to a Greek company and renamed MV Pleias 1964; scrapped 1968 |
HMS Malvernian[4] |
1937 |
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abandoned after being bombed, North Atlantic, July 19, 1941 |
HMS Manistee |
1920 |
1940 |
sailed with Arctic convoy OB 288 and sunk 24 February 1941, no survivors |
HMS Marsdale |
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Participated in locating German supply ships after the Bismarck had been sunk |
HMS Maplin |
1932 |
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Formerly Erin. Converted to Fighter catapult ship 1940. |
HMS Patia |
1922 |
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converted to Fighter catapult ship in 1940. Sank after attacked by German aircraft 1941 |
HMS Registan[5] |
1930 |
13 Sep 1940 |
Bombed off Cape Cornwall 27 May 1941; repaired and returned to merchant use Nov 1941; sunk 29 Sep, 1942[6] |