Allied Warships

HMS Tehana (FY 525)

MS Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeMS Trawler
Class[No specific class] 
PennantFY 525 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched27 Dec 1928 
CommissionedAug 1939 
End service 
History

Completed in February 1929.
Taken over by the Admiralty in August 1939.
Displacement: 333 tons.
Armament: 1 12pdr AA gun.

Became a wreck dispersal vessel in 1944 (penant 4.418 ).

Renamed Saturn in 1947.
Scrapped at Gdansk, Poland on 20 January 1966.

 

Commands listed for HMS Tehana (FY 525)

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CommanderFromTo
1Skr. Ernest Wilfred Critten, RNR27 Aug 193911 Dec 1939
2Ch.Skr. Wilfrid Perrett, RNR11 Dec 193915 Jan 1941
3T/S.Lt. Tom Sims-Hilditch, RNVR15 Jan 1941Feb 1941
4T/Lt. Douglas Charles Morrison, RNVRFeb 19413 Mar 1943
5T/Lt. Robert Peter Daws, RNVR3 Mar 194326 Jun 1943
6T/Lt. Brian Hartley Russell, RNR26 Jun 194329 Nov 1943
7Lt. John Mayling, RN29 Nov 194323 Mar 1944
8T/Lt. Brian Hartley Russell, RNR23 Mar 1944mid 1946

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