Navy | The Royal Navy |
Type | MS Trawler |
Class | [No specific class] |
Pennant | FY 1560 |
Built by | Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | |
Launched | 20 May 1916 |
Commissioned | 1941 |
Lost | 25 Sep 1943 |
History | Completed in November 1916. HMT Franc Tireur (T/A/Lt.Cdr. L.R. Greenwood, RNVR) was torpedoed and sunk by the German motor torpedo boat S-96 off Harwich, England on 25 September 1943 |
Commands listed for HMS Franc Tireur (FY 1560)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Samuel Salenius, RNR | 29 May 1940 | 8 Apr 1941 |
2 | T/Skr. Alfred Ernest Dyer, RNR | 8 Apr 1941 | 19 Jul 1941 |
3 | T/Lt. Gerald Rowe May, RNR | 19 Jul 1941 | 19 Jan 1943 |
4 | T/Lt. William Hunter Boyd, RNVR | 19 Jan 1943 | 31 Mar 1943 |
5 | T/Lt. Leslie Rawson Greenwood, RNVR | 31 Mar 1943 | 25 Sep 1943 |
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