Allied Warships

HMS Sawfly (FY 629)

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 629 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched15 Oct 1928 
CommissionedAug 1939 
End service 
History

Completed in December 1928.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Displacement: 307 tons.

Returned to her owner in October 1945.
Renamed Tenby Castle in 1945.
Scrapped at Briton Ferry on 28 January 1960.

 

Commands listed for HMS Sawfly (FY 629)

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1Ch.Skr. William Thompson Harwood, RNR26 Oct 1939mid 1945

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