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Minesweeper, Royal Norwegian Navy 1940 HMT Alcor: Dec 1939: Minesweeper, returned 1945 HMT Alex Hastie: Oct 1939: Auxiliary patrol, returned Feb 1940 HMT Alex Watts: 1940: Torpedo recovery vessel, returned 1945 HMT Alexandre Gabrielle: Jul 1940: Balloon barrage vessel, returned Jul 1944 HMT Alexander Scott: 1939: Minesweeper, Dan layer ...
Naval trawlers were purpose-built or requisitioned and operated by the Royal Navy (RN), mainly during World Wars I and II. Vessels built to Admiralty specifications for RN use were known as Admiralty trawlers. All trawlers operated by the RN, regardless of origin, were typically given the prefix HMT, for "His Majesty's Trawler".
The Royal Norwegian Navy also used a German naval trawler captured in April 1940 and put into service as HNoMS Honningsvåg. After the occupation of Norway the Free Norwegian forces used fishing vessels for their clandestine Shetland bus operations in support of the Norwegian resistance.
However, before she was completed, on 15 June 1940, she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and completed as an anti-submarine trawler on 12 August 1940. She was assigned to the Royal Naval Patrol Service and employed as a convoy escort.
HMT Warwick Deeping (H136) was a naval trawler of the British Royal Naval Patrol Service during World War II, sunk off the Isle of Wight in October 1940. Ship history [ edit ]
The Isles-class trawlers were a class of naval trawler used by the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal New Zealand Navy during World War II. The type comprised 197 vessels built between 1939 and 1945 in the nearly identical Isles, Dance , Tree and Shakespearian classes.
The Shakespearian-class trawler was a series of anti-submarine naval trawlers of the Royal Navy. Ships in the class had a displacement of 545 long tons (554 t), a top speed of 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) and a crew of 40 men.
1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun HMT Almond was a Tree-class naval trawler of the British Royal Navy . Almond was launched in 1940 and served in World War II , being sunk by a mine on 2 February 1941.