Allied Warships

HMS Remexo (FY 875)

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 875 
Built byCook, Welton & Gemmill (Beverley, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched18 Jun 1912 
CommissionedJun 1940 
End service 
History

Completed on 16 August 1912.
Taken over by the Admiralty in June 1940.
Displacement: 231 tons.

Became a balloon barrage vessel in 1944.

Scrapped at Hemiksem, Belgium on 14 April 1959.

 

Commands listed for HMS Remexo (FY 875)

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CommanderFromTo
1J Harwood, RNR6 Dec 19398 Jun 1940
2T/Skr. Jonathan Carne Hodge, RNR8 Jun 194029 Sep 1940
3T/Skr. John Vernon Earl, RNR29 Sep 194026 Sep 1941
4T/S.Lt. Desmond McGrath, RNVR26 Sep 19416 May 1943
5T/A/S.Lt. George Henry Dean, RNVR6 May 19437 Oct 1943
6T/A/Lt.Cdr. Ernest Smith, RNR7 Oct 194316 Aug 1944
7T/Lt. Arthur Edwin Bacon, RNVR16 Aug 1944mid 1945

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