Allied Warships

HMS Asama

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
Pennant 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched18 Nov 1929 
CommissionedAug 1939 
Lost21 Mar 1941 
History

Completed in December 1929.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Displacement: 303 tons.
Armament: 1 12pdr AA gun.

Sunk by German aircraft off Plymouth, England on 21 March 1941.

 

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1T/Skr. Robert Charles Allen, DSC, RNRmid/late4021 Mar 1941

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